I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

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.

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.

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

You will know your path by the fun of it.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.