Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
