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.

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

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

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

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.