Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Soul mate isn’t a preexisting condition. It’s an earned title. They’re made over time.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

In my experience, if we take this idea of “striving for simplicity” seriously, we are more, rather than less, likely to end up doing something cool. We are more, rather than less, likely to enhance the value of our CVs and résumés, too.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

Remember that the original programmers who coded in binary were very afraid that Grace Hopper’s A0 compiler, as horribly primitive as it was, was going to replace them. And, in fact, the opposite happened. As the tooling got better, the higher the demand grew for more and more programmers.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

Learning the syntax and semantics of a programming language is essential, but it’s only the first step in learning how to program in that language.

— V. Anton Spraul, Think Like a Programmer