Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

-Martin Fowler

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

—The Peter Principle

The important question is, do you want prediction, or do you want control?

-Tom Gilb

Building a skyscraper requires a different approach than building a doghouse. Different sizes of software projects work the same way.
- Steve McConnell

No programmer has ever been able to predict or analyze where performance bottlenecks are without data. No matter where you think it’s going, you will be surprised to discover that it is going somewhere else.

- Joseph M. Newcomer

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker

Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
- Melvin E. Conway