- C. Gordon Bell
I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.
“If an expert says something can be done he is probably correct, but if he says it is impossible then consider getting another opinion.”
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.