The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

I always have a bit of a look, a bit of a frown.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.