If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.
I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.