Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.