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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.