…the way they taught me to program in college was all wrong. You should figure out programs as you’re writing them, just as writers and painters and architects do.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaningless, and that is no improvement at all.

— Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator), 12 Rules for Life

If you have a problem and believe that your title is the only thing holding you back, I want to reassure you that focusing on developing your approach and skills will be far more impactful than the title.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

…we can now be sure that the egg came first. This is because reproductive mutations separating a new species from its progenitor generally occur in reproductive rather than somatic DNA and are thus expressed in differences between successive generations, but not in the parent organisms themselves.

— Christopher Michael Langan and Chris Langan, The Art of Knowing

It borders on the impossible to write a program of any real complexity in C and not have a security problem.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work