- Selling a 1080p television to an elderly person wearing bifocals is like selling uggs to a war veteran with no legs
- “Compliance compensates for times when normal market forces fail to provide adequate alignment of interests. For example, when organizations in a position to protect data aren’t responsible for the losses.” – Courtesy of Jeremiah Grossman
- Java is the current latin of programming languages
- Preparing code to change is a lot harder than making the first change without thinking about it
- When building onto a bad system, trying to do things right only makes everything more complicated
- The Unix terminal tab auto-complete feature is the best auto-complete implementation in existence. More systems need to mimic its functionality.
- Programming languages should never use single characters (e.g. $, @, %) to signify data types or other information about variables.
- Programming in pajamas or sweats is 100x more productive than programming in business attire.
- Some people draw ugly pictures because they cannot envision beautiful pictures.
- Some people write ugly programs because they cannot envision beautiful programs.