Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information. - Gerald M. Weinberg

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power

Programmers do not ordinarily work in isolation. Although an individual programmer may find herself assigned the task of writing a program, even then she has other programmers to whom she may turn for help — and who, at the same time, may be turning to her.