Process is not a substitute for skill.

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

You need to get out of your nest in order to fly.

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

We're going to rebuild our military. Our military is depleted. Our military is frankly, our military is in trouble.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.