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Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

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Fred Brooks
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: April 19
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Mathematician
Software Engineer
University Teacher
Durham
North Carolina
Frederick Phillips Brooks
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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