Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.
Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.
Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.
I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
Work hard at work worth doing.