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.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

You get what you expect in life.Expect great things in life.Live your best life.

Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians