Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

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.

The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.

Kindness is contagious. When we are kind, then we inspire others to be kind.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.