So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

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

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.

Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I try not to look back on my career.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.