Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

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

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

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

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.