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• How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
• The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers…
• Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
• Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
• Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart…
• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the…
• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating…
• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.
• Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
• Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

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