The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

all brave men love

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

It's always a job when you're the reason they're assembling. If you're just doing shows and you're on a lineup with eight other guys, it's fun, it's great.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

Knowledge always liberates.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.