It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?

The wages of sin is debugging.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Your gift of positive influence will open the eyes of many people. They'll be able to recognise their personal values which will lead them to live authentic lives and achieve the impossible.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.