Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

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

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

It's harder to read code than to write it.

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