“Morons, you can't do much with them, but it gives you a feeling that you're better than you really are.”

“When someone puts you down, remeber the booger having out of his/her nose.”

“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick”

“And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.”

“If you work closely with your users, sharing their expectations and communicating what you're doing, then there will be few surprises when the project gets delivered. This is a BAD THING. Try to surprise your users. Not scare them, mind you, but /delight/ them.”

“If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.”