You can read my résumé or email me.
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ
points.
Some people, when confronted
with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular
expressions.” Now they have two problems.
You can’t have great software
without a great team, and most software teams behave like
dysfunctional families.
I love deadlines. I like the
whooshing sound they make
We should forget about small
efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature
optimization is the root of all evil.
PHP is a minor evil
perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas
Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled
but perverted professionals.
It’s usually better to have
something than to be something.
XML is like violence. If it
doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of
it.
Measuring programming
progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft
building progress by weight.
The Linux philosophy is
“Laugh in the face of danger.” Oops. Wrong One. “Do it
yourself.” Yes, that's it.
Most software today is very
much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled
on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
The most likely way for the
world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We
cause accidents.
A complex system that works
is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system
that worked.
If I have not seen as far as
others, it is because giants were standing on my
shoulders.
Do not weep. Do not wax
indignant. Understand.