Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

People will tell you that you cant do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

I will see it when I believe it.