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

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.

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

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.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.

You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

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

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.