Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.