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

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.

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.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

Don't 'discover' a subject of any kind.