Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

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.

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.

Successful software always gets changed.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.