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

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

When working on a problem, think only how to solve it. If the solution is not simple and has no inner beauty such as art, it is wrong.

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.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.