The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

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.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

The goal of socialism is communism.