What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.

His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this--""You really should." And I close the distance between us.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.