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One Quotes by Fred Brooks
- How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
- Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
- A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software…
- The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is…
- There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in…
- The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one…
- The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes…
- How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle