Design Quote by Fred Brooks Download Open image “Predictability and great design are not friends.” — Fred Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Friendship Great design Not friends Predictability
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the… — Donald A. Norman 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
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
