I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

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.

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.