Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

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

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.