The Hawthorne Effect (“the process of being observed often motivates people to better performance”) can be the bane of scientific observation. - Gerald M. Weinberg

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.

Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.