“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

“Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.”

“Most managers have some conception of at least some of the types of decisions they must make. Their conceptions, however, are likely to be deficient in a very critical way, a way that follows from an important principle of scientific economy: The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.”

“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

“I'm so physically deficient that the act of sleep injures me. It's like I disprove evolution and intelligent design at once.”

“Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.”

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”