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

Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

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

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.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

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