“With composition, parts can’t be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.”

“The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram.”

“To build a software that your users understand, capture the language of that users in a class diagram.”

“Many of the modeling mistakes are modeler's poor listening skills.”

“most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.”

“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.”

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of Society, such that their very a- or immorality is what makes their art artistic rather than academic.”