As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world. - Gerald Weinberg

A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals.

A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.