Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

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.

I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.

I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Smiling is mostly about smiling more.