Donald Knuth: "The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style." (Via Ben Hammersley.)

"[...] you spend so much time working out the solution to a problem, that by the time you come to write it up, you're both bored with it and resentful of the future readers for not knowing the answer themselves." (Via himself.)

"In prose, a bad choice like this would have been caught by me editor, or would by now be way back in the rear view mirror. In code, we've had to repeat the same awkward construction in more and more places."

"There are some good reasons that urban planners, just like software designers, are unable to see past issues of scalability, and fall back on tree structures for everything." (Via Dan Hill.)

"MDA aims to separate business or application logic from underlying platform technology" (via Robert Palmqvist).

"[N]ew inspirations are sought from Dnyaneshwari [...], one of the best Indian saint literatures [which] uses numerous metaphors for depicting complex and abstract philosophical information." (via Håkan Kjellerstrand)

"This paper describes techniques for transforming natural language into rhetoric suitable for conceptual modeling." (via Håkan Kjellerstrand)

"Software is an unique form of literature. Software is useful, usable fiction." (via Håkan Kjellerstrand)

"What do you see as the big problems in writing software?"

(via Håkan Kjellerstrand)