Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. This implies that it is not correct to think of the opposite of violence as non-violence; to speak of non-violent power is actually redundant. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— On Violence, Hannah Arendt

…ease of code use is often inversely proportional to how reusable that code is.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures

You should know by now that programming is the grunt work needed to implement solutions to problems. Defining the problems and their solutions is the interesting and harder part.

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs

…more than most industries, tech companies seem to run on tropes and rituals that remind you of a tent revival: the mantra-like phrases, the messianic gurus, the cult of genius that barely manages to cover up its religious dimensions.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

…one finds religious people defending their beliefs by saying, “Well, you can’t justify your belief in science!” In other words, “How dare you criticize me for having unjustified beliefs, you hypocrite! You’re doing it too!”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind