"After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant."

“There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.”

“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .”

“You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.”

“It’s the age of celebrity. It’s the age of social media. But for we old school girls who don’t want to show up at every single event just ‘cause I don’t tweet–I have nothing to say. I’m not on Facebook. I mean it sounds like I have plenty to say, but that’s to people who I’m in a room with. I’m not that interesting, and the rest is none of your business.”

“I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.”

“You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy”

“I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”

“The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.”

Source : Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall