The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

- Grady Booch

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

- Grady Booch

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

- Grady Booch

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

- Grady Booch

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

- Grady Booch

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

- Grady Booch

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

- Grady Booch

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

- Grady Booch

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

- Grady Booch