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Predictability and great design are not friends (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Improving your process won’t move you from good to great design. It’ll move you from bad to average. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The programmer’s primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules’ data structures (Fred Brooks Quotes)
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community’s practice (Fred Brooks Quotes)
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man’s handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one’s bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later (Fred Brooks Quotes)
A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Nine people can’t make a baby in a month (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Successful software always gets changed (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design (Fred Brooks Quotes)
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time (Fred Brooks Quotes)
Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow (Fred Brooks Quotes)
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers (Fred Brooks Quotes)
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn’t work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program (Fred Brooks Quotes)
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status (Fred Brooks Quotes)
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