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.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.