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

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

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

Predictability and great design are not friends.