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."

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

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

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

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.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.