We admitted that we were powerless to resolve our bugs - that our code had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore our codebase to consistency. Made a decision to turn our GUI and our database over to the care of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our bug reports. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to the whole development team the exact classes and functions where our coding had gone wrong. Were entirely ready to have God remove all our design defects. Humbly asked Him to guide our code refactoring. Continued to take inventory of bug reports and feature requests and when they were out of scope, or code refactoring was necessary, promptly admitted it. Having had a technical awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to...

You can't predict ROI. If you're not going to do it right, don't do it all. If something's working, go for it, but do it your own way. Don't be deceived by statistics. Just because it's easy doesn't make it unimportant. Sometimes imitation is the sincerest form of admitting you have no clue....

You always have options. When in doubt, diagram it. Doing is the best route to understanding. Things you expect to be hard are easy. Things you expect to be easy are hard. When planning, never confuse the specific with the open-ended....

"Lobotomy was used to treat many behavioral disorders, including psychosis, although its "effectiveness" was (from a modern viewpoint) due to its tendency to markedly reduce behavior of all types." (from the description of thorazine in the Antipsychotic article)...