It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.