You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.

It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

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