Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. - Gerald M. Weinberg

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, “We did it ourselves.” - Lao Tse

each program has an appropriate level of care and sophistication dependent on the uses to which it will be put. Working above that level is, in a way, even less professional than working below it. If we are to know whether an individual programmer is doing a good job, we shall have to know whether or not he is working on the proper level for his problem.

Specifications evolve together with programs and programmers. Writing a program is a process of learning — both for the programmer and the person who commissions the program.