The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

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

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

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

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

Successful software always gets changed.