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.

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

The crazier the theory, the more likely it is to be correct.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.