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 great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.

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…

The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the…

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…

'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.