"We ported Subversion to Google’s BigTable infrastructure and launched an open source project hosting service (similar to SourceForge) under the banner of Google Code."
"Hiding Is Considered Harmful"
"We want the compiler at our side for every little step, playing wingman; some environments can even compile our code as we type. This is how we keep code quality high and make sure our software is evolving correctly bit by bit."
"We used to work on a team with a vocal interrupt protocol: if you wanted to talk, you would say “breakpoint Mary” where Mary was the name of the person you wanted to talk to. If Mary was at a point where she could stop, she would swing her chair around and listen. If Mary was too busy, she’d just sa"
"Here’s a quote from a famous lecture by Richard Hamming:5 By taking the trouble to tell jokes to the secretaries and being a little friendly, I got superb secretarial help."
"The Apache Software Foundation has a long history of creating communities around software projects; these communities have incredibly strong identities and reject people who are more concerned about self-promotion."
"The trick is to make sure you (and those around you) understand the difference between constructive criticism of someone’s creative output and flat-out assaults against someone’s character."
"Be Open to Influence The more you are open to influence, the more you are able to influence;"