Top 10 Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Quotes

#1. All programmers are optimists

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#2. Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

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#3. Adding manpower to a late software project, makes it later.

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#4. A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

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#5. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

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#6. The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,
fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

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#7. A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

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#8. Testing is usually the most mis-scheduled part of programming.

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#9. The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.

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#10. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

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