Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

The optimum committee has no members.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.