Details

To understand why details matter, you first need to notice them.

-- Rands in Response twitter.com/rands

Measure performance

Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don’t speculate. You’ll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won’t be that you were right!

-- Ron Jeffries

Skilled people & doomed companies

It’s a fact that a lot of skilled people are working at doomed companies, and that’s bad, because the most precious resource (in business) is the time, energy, talent, and creativity of these people.

-- Eric Reis @ http://goo.gl/F9QsU

Great Habits

“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”

-- Kent Beck

About design and refactoring

"The harder it is to see the design in the code, the harder it is to preserve it, and the more rapidly it decays. Regular refactoring helps code retain its shape."

-- Why you should refactor