Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

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.

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

A complicated life is a permanent home for stress.

You don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.