I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

I don't see music as working.