If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

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.

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.