Most managers may defend the schedule and requirements with passion; but that’s their job. It’s your job to defend the code with equal passion.

Robert Martin (Uncle Bob), Clean code

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Tom Cargil, Bell labs

My job really is, in the end, is to say 'no.' Somebody has to say 'no' to [this patch or that pull request]. And because developers know that if they do something that I'll say 'no' to, they do a better job of writing the code.

Linus Torvalds

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection..., except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.

David Wheeler

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Philip Zimmermann