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

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

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.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.