"Adding manpower to a late software project, makes it later." - Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
"Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people." - Tom DeMarco
"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want." - Niklaus Wirth
"When executives ask for an 'estimate,' they’re often asking for a commitment or for a plan to meet a target." - Steve McConnell, Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
"Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products." - Niklaus Wirth
"The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers." - Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering