Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

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

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.