Bogdan Păun

“Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming
issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance
with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a
list of religious issues:
■ Programming language
■ Indentation style
■ Placing of braces
■ Choice of IDE
■ Commenting style
■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs
■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary
delivery
■ Programming utilities
■ Naming conventions
■ Use of gotos
■ Use of global variables
■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day”
― Steve McConnell, Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

“For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be. —Xenophon (430?–355? B.C.)”
― Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

“Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudson than from the banks of the Charles.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.”
― Demosthenes