I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.