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.

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

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!

Gravitate towards your heart’s desire!

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

Tessa knows Will,” protested Charlotte. “She trusts Will.” “Iwouldn’t go that far,” muttered Tessa.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.