The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.