Successful software always gets changed.

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.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.