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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.
Fred Brooks
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Fred Brooks
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: April 19
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Durham
North Carolina
Frederick Phillips Brooks
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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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A scientist builds in order to learn an engineer learns in order to build.
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