More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. — Fred Brooks Copy Share
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the… — Fred Brooks Copy Share
An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." — Fred Brooks Copy Share
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make… — Fred Brooks Copy Share
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen… — Fred Brooks Copy Share
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. — Fred Brooks Copy Share
We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas… — Fred Brooks Copy Share
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. — Fred Brooks Copy Share
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. — Fred Brooks Copy Share
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks Copy Share
