[...] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!)

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

[...] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I'm doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

You know it's Monday when you wake up and it's Tuesday.

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and so, things became worse.