Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

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.

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.