The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

True prayer is pleading with God for that which He wants to do anyway.

You ought to be curious and daring.

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.