Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

If you TRY, and you just BELIEVE, you CAN; you WILL.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.