Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
The optimum committee has no members.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
