Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

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.

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

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!