I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
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.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.