Complexes Quote by Fred Brooks Download Open image “Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.” — Fred Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexes Humanity Nature of man Software
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that… — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of our minds… — Frederick Lenz 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 the most… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity,… — Alan Kay 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
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
