A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.