the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used
- Gene Amdahl
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- Ian Betteridge
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
- Alberto Brandolini
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
- Fred Brooks
All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master. They should reward the first quarter and the hundredth.
- Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari
Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
- Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.
- Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not Invented Here Syndrome