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.

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

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

Deleted code is debugged code.

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.