We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

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.

I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable, a star all to myselfa galaxy away from your starved fingers.

Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.