Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

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.

Change your perception about things and the things you perceive changes.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.