Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

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.

Gosh, so this house must be a nunnery!”-Lilly to Sophia

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?