Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

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

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.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

I met my first midget in Mexico, and he was a waiter with a sombrero on his head, filled with chips and salsa. Like I was gonna let that guy get away - I don't think so.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines