I know only one programming language worse than C and that is JavaScript.

Robert Cailliau

Technical solutions come easy for us. It’s not that thinking technically is bad. It’s just that there are times when thinking less technically is better.

Vaughn Vernon

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in systems design.

Fred Brooks

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Brian Foote, Joseph Yoder, "Big Ball of Mud"

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup