Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

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.

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.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.