Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

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.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

Influencers are dreamers. They are leaders with a vision.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.