I've learned to always avoid saying "always"

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.