Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

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.

so the poem hurt you.it was supposed to.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

You can't please everybody, man.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station