The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

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.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life’s problems.

Happiness is an illusion

Intentions are nothing

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.