Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.