The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

I always wonder how to measure how beautiful life is.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.