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

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

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.

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.

I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.