To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

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.

There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

We are Surrounded by Paradoxes and Questions!

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.