Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Leadership. No rules, no laws, no books, no titles, just influence.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.