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

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

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

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

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.