A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

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.

When we stop pursuing God's purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

The exception does not prove the rule.

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.