Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

The optimum committee has no members.

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.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

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