Things are the way they are because they got that way — Gerald Weinberg

"If the software doesnt have to work, you can always meet any other requirement."

"A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others."

"Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom...?"

"I believe, however, that humans are the only animals that we know who invents tools for working together - and they have done that as long as we have considered them human."

"When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential improvements, progress speeds up dramatically."

"The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of several disciplines. How do they do it? When questioned, these generalists always express an inner faith in the unity of science. They, too, carry a single paradigm, but it is one taken from a much higher vantage point, one from which the paradigms of the different disciplines are seen to be very much alike, though often obscured by special language."