So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

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

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

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

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.

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works