All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

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

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.

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

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.