Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

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

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.

Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.