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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.

It's all about removing the unnecessary.

Never spend an hour doing by hand what you can spend four hours automating.

Even when you're actively working on a program it can take half an hour to load into your head when you start work each day. And that's in the best case. Ordinary programmers working in typical office conditions never enter this mode. Or to put it more dramatically, ordinary programmers working in typical office conditions never really understand the problems they're solving.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, “don’t try to fly too high” — or whether it might also be thought of as “forget the wax and feathers and do a better job on the wings”.

To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

The 6 Stages of Debugging: That can't happen. That shouldn't happen. Hmmm, weird. Why does that happen? Oh, I see. How did that ever work?

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I'm buying a Cinnabon … at the airport … I arrived at. You understand why that's extra disgusting, right? Because when you're at the airport you're leaving from, you can say, 'Oh, I gotta eat. I need some food, because I might be trapped in the sky forever, so I should eat right now.' But I've landed. The trip is over. I'm 20 minutes from my house, where I got bananas and apples and shit. And I…

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

A programmer who refuses to design is a programmer who refuses to think.

Programming is an unnatural act.

The key thing to look for is how hard is it to add a completely new feature. It should be easy to do that. If it's not, it's likely because of a poorly organized (and therefore not well-understood) central data structure.

One of the ways that we make our programs more secure is to make our programs simpler.

There's security and safety and then there's bars on the window sleeping in a closet with a loaded gun pointing at the door.

Ceremony leads to fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to pain. Pain leads to Ceremony.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and theref…

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.