Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

Be brave enough to be simple and humble.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law