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

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

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

The wages of sin is debugging.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

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!!

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.

Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

My motto - sans limites.

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.