Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

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.

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.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

People are simple. People are complicated.

Life is not a one act play

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

In the short run, the big windfall winners ... have been the Islamists.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.