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

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

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.

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.

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

Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer working on the next Duke Nukem and we'll ship when we're good and ready. But for almost any kind of real business, you just have to know how long things are going to take, because developing a product costs money.

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