The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.
Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
Highly reliable components are not necessarily safe. .
What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .
Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot
I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.