Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.