Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

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

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.