Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

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.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.

People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.