Good code is its own best documentation.

Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.