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.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

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