If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

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.

One day… You are going to remember me and how much I loved you, and then you are going to hate yourself for letting me go.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.