Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.