We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the p…

Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as gre…

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incred…

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

All good work is done in defiance of management.