Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

she died of internal weeping

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.