A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong?

We'll have all night for slow and sweet, " she said softly. "But right now, I really want that hard and fast you mentioned earlier.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

I will not be triumphed over.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.