Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.
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.
Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.
Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers