OOP discussions would be much more pleasant had Alan Kay written "the big idea is massaging" instead
Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.
~ Gerald Weinberg
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
~ Sir Alan Kay
If your organization doesn't like truth and honesty, it probably won't like agile
~ Henrik Kniberg