When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.