You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

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.

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

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

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

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

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.