One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

- Ron Jeffries

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

- Ron Jeffries

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

- Ron Jeffries

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

- Ron Jeffries

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

- Ron Jeffries

The wages of sin is debugging.

- Ron Jeffries

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times …

- Ron Jeffries

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?

- Ron Jeffries

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

- Ron Jeffries