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

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.

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.

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

A wrong was just righted. Take care of my best friend.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.