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.

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.

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.

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

A kiss may ruin a human life

Knowledge is not Power, its is potential power!

SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.

Any great love comes from intense suffering

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.