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It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers
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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