System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

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.

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.

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

The world isn’t waiting for you. It doesn’t even know that you're alive. But it needs you, and it won’t know about you until and unless you get yourself out there.

To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.

Keep all your passions in your life.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.