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Fred Brooks Inspirational Quotes (36)

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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
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Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts they'll be obvious.
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You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
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Plan to throw one (implementation) away you will, anyhow.
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A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.
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The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
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Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.
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Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
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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.
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Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
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Predictability and great design are not friends.
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