When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

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