Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

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.

Dream large and make yaour dreams defy the laws of gravity. Soar high and show your inner strength

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

When you pray, you talk to God. When you meditate, you listen to God.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.