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

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.

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.

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

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

There is just one way to get success for me - Live in other's heart.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

I teach people how to become limitless.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.