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

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

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

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.