Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

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

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

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.

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He’ll use the people around us for that

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.