There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark.

To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.