“Life is a distributed object system.”
— Roy T. Fielding, 1998

“Bad concurrency models make programming artificially difficult.”
— Joe Armstrong, 2014

“The reasonable thing just doesn’t work.”
— John Stewart Bell

“It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory—or a universe in your backyard—by man-made processes.”
— Alan Guth

“I am rooting for the machines! I have always been on the machines' side.”
— Claude Shannon, 1987

“Space tells matter how to move;
Matter tells space how to curve.”
— John Archibald Wheeler

“There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
— Phil Karlton

“Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.”
— Fred Brooks

Frameworks increase productivity but decrease freedom.

“...we are not exactly computers.”
— Roger Penrose

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer

“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”
— Vilfredo Pareto

“Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion? No, not if I am satisfied with the result.”
— Oliver Heaviside

“There's more than one way to do it.”
— #Perl motto

“There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it.”
— Zen of #Python no. 13

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
— G. K. Chesterton

“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”
— Theodor Adorno

“I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.”
— Bertrand Russell

“We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.”
— Samuel Butler

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
— E. O. Wilson

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
— Alfred North Whitehead

“Evolution converts randomness into order and complexity.”
— Evolution: a simulation, by David Randall Miller