• Lazy people often work quite hard to avoid work
• The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by one bit
• One secret of success is to be ready when the opportunity comes
• Read
• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same
• Silent watcher
• The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
• Suffering is a part of life
• Less is more
• Best software engineering work is done when you should be working on something else
• The secret to optimization is changing the problem to optimize
• Overnight success takes 30 years
• Don’t leave broken windows
• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior
• Theory and practice sometimes clash, and when that happens theory loses every single time
• All great developers got there by solving problems they were not qualified to solve