admiring remarks of my team as I track down the latest obscure but in the Project Mercury Monitor System. - 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.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

you don’t have to be a boss to be a leader