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.

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

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

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

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 brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

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