You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

The speed of light sucks.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me.

There is more to life than I imagine. Life is spiritual. We are heavenly beings.

POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.