We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

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

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

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.