Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

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

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.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

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