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.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

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.

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

Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

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