I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.