It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.