The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.
Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.
Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.