Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.