Quotes

People do not want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Code quality is a mindset that I have seen correlate with wealth and great outcomes over and over again.

Most developers have never seen a domain model, only a data model.

If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.

The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

We do not make things easy to do. We make them easy to understand.

I broke the first rule of sales: never underestimate how stupid everyone is.

There are two wolves, and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which one wins? Whichever one you feed.

All men suffer, but not all men pity themselves.

There is nothing worse than getting what you want more than what you need.

If you have not read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone are not broad enough to sustain you.

Paper is more patient than people.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also: he is always getting ready to live.

Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot, you are right.

You cannot have an easy life and a great character.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

Integrity is one of those words which many people keep in that desk drawer labeled 'too hard'.

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.