A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.