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

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

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.

Trouble. Sweetheart. Sang. Don't. Don't slip away." He sniffed. I felt a droplet meeting my forehead.Gabriel was crying."I need you, " he whispered. "Comeback to me. I need you.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.