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

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Good code is its own best documentation.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

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