Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

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

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

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

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

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.

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