Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

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

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.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.