"Systems engineering as an approach and methodology grew in response to the increase size and complexity of systems an…"

"While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static."

"The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work."

"You can't control what you can't measure"

"The business of software building isn't really high-tech at all. It's most of all a business of talking to each other…"

"It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so."

"A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end."

"People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster."

"Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it."

"Nicht das, was wir nicht wissen, bringt uns zu Fall, sondern das, was wir fälschlicherweise zu wissen glauben."