The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?

The wages of sin is debugging.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.