"The people you bring onto the project will make a huge difference in whether you meet your deadlines, complete visible tasks, and achieve your goals. Their success is your success, and their failure is very much your failure"—The Staff Engineer's Path
"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination."By Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them. Even if this is a situation where you have all the information, even if this is a formal meeting with you standing in front of 20 suits—if you don't listen to them, they won't listen to you."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"There are no wrong answers in architecture, only expensive ones."By Fundamentals of Software Architecture
"there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition