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Software Quotes by Fred Brooks
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
- 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 projects, those software…
- The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is…
- Successful software always gets changed.
- Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
- The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
- More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
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