About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

Software engineering economics.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..." Mencheres to Cat

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.