Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.