“Planning does not slow the process, it ensures the process can be executed in the first place.”
“Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.”
“Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field”
“Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.”
“I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...”
“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.”