Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

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

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.