A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

Geniuses are a dime a dozen. The truly tolerant are rare.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.