The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

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.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w

Make up your mind! Whom you shall serve?

You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more.

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.