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

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

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.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.