How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

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 bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.