I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

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.

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.

The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Memory demands an image.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.