Just turned up at OT2004. Fellow attendees with blogs that I know of:
Cute lines
Lisp is the Burgess Shale of computation. Full of unusual byways of software evolution that never quite made the mainstream but were just as valid as the winners.
Duncan McGregor accidentally observed that
Plans rarely survive contact with the Customer (after von Moltke, German Chief of Staff, World War I)
I think my quote was (suitably tidied) “Just as no plan survives contact with the enemy, maybe no methodology survives contact with the project.”