Here’s what the economic historians of the 23rd Century are going to say about the 20th.

“They built giant, globe-spanning organizations, that employed tens of thousands of people working around the clock, to produce… sugar water, fast food, disposable razors, and gas guzzlers. Perhaps the defining characteristic of the paradigm of 20th Century capitalism was its astonishing lack of ambition. Rarely in history has such a void, a poverty of imagination been so deeply woven into the fabric of humankind’s economic systems.”

De The Scale Every Business Needs Now

I bequeath to you my fear and my loneliness.

To you I give the certainty that the body and soul of the Bene Gesserit will meet the same fate as all other bodies and all other souls.

What is survival if you do not survive whole? Ask the Bene Tleilax that! What if you no longer hear the music of life? Memories are not enough unless they call you to noble purpose!

Why did your sisterhood not build the Golden Path? You knew the necessity. Your failure condemned me, the God Emperor, to millennia of personal despair.

My words are your past, my questions are simple:

With whom will you ally?
With the self-idolaters of Tleilax?
With my Fish Speaker bureaucracy?
With the cosmos-wandering Guild?
With Harkonnen blood sacrificers?
With a dogmatic sink of your own creation?
How will you meet your end?
As no more than a secret society?

— Heretics of Dune, by Frank Herbert

Minha passagem favorita da série inteira e uma que até hoje me dá calafrios quando eu releio.

When we extol the benefits of architecture emerging in agile, we are really saying developers are better architects than Architects. #oopsla

Brian Foote no Twitter reportando do OOPSLA

Software é algo orgânico, algo vivo (ou morto-vivo dependendo do projeto). Cuide dele corretamente senão ele vai matar a sua mãe!

Excelente texto sobre agilidade, controle de qualidade e criação de software que realmente importa pelo Everton Carpes.