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> [Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/improving-your-process-won-t-move-you-from-good-to-great-design-it-ll/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

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## Other authors on Good to great

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## More by Fred Brooks

> [Predictability and great design are not friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/predictability-and-great-design-are-not-friends/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/more-software-projects-have-gone-awry-for-lack-of-calendar-time-than/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/the-first-step-toward-the-management-of-disease-was-replacement-of/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/an-ancient-adage-warns-never-go-to-sea-with-two-chronometers-take-one/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Nine people can't make a baby in a month.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/nine-people-can-t-make-a-baby-in-a-month/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/software-work-is-the-most-complex-that-humanity-has-ever-undertaken/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/a-computer-program-is-a-message-from-a-man-to-a-machine-the-rigidly/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/the-magic-of-myth-and-legend-has-come-true-in-our-time-one-types-the/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/improving-your-process-won-t-move-you-from-good-to-great-design-it-ll/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/present-to-inform-not-to-impress-if-you-inform-you-will-impress/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/we-tend-to-blame-the-physical-media-for-most-of-our-implementation/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/product-procedure-must-securely-protect-the-crown-jewels-but-equally/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/the-hardest-single-part-of-building-a-software-system-is-deciding/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/job-control-language-is-the-worst-programming-language-ever-designed/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

> [How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/how-does-a-project-get-to-be-a-year-behind-schedule-one-day-at-a-time/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

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