The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

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.

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

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

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