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

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

You are being discipled by something.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.