"Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things."

"I believe, however, that humans are the only animals that we know who invents tools for working together - and they h…"

"When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential impr…"

"We were doing incremental development as early as 1957, in Los Angeles, under the direction of Bernie Dimsdale [at IB…"

"A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used."

"Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promo…"

"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civiliz…"

"Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although b…"

"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human acti…"

"Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the co…"