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

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

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

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.

Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

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.