Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

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.

When your dream doesn't let you sleep even after 22 hours of waking up, it's worth chasing.

If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.