A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

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.

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.

The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.

If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

Anytime you go digging around on the internet and into your world, maybe you don't want to find out where your name pops up.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.