An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

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.

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

The usefulest truths are the plainest.