I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

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.

Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.

I will wait for God’s promises to be fulfilled in my life.

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.