System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

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

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

The war never leaves.

He shall never know how I love him

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

Master water first and then paint.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.