Quotes by Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

…when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Creativity

Running

Strong

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Dumb

Men

Syntax

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 systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

Design

Fans

Mind

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Computer

Programming

Projects

Design work doesn’t just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Design

Design Work

Requirements

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Firsts

Planning

Programming

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

One Day At A Time

Procrastination

Years

Improving your process won’t move you from good to great design. It’ll move you from bad to average.

Average

Design

Moving

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Communication

Men

Tasks

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

Calendars

Gone

Time

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Abstract

Average

Battle

Beach

Believe

Building

Calendars

Cds

Character

Choices

Communication

Community

Complexes

Computer

Creativity

Data

Debugging

Design

Design Work

Designer

Different

Diversity

Done

Dumb

Essence

Essentials

Faces

Fans

Firsts

Fundamentals

Gone

Hardest

Humanity

Humility

Identity

Ifs

Ignorance

Impress

Improvement

Learning

Maintenance

Men

Mind

Moving

Needs

Night

No Excuses

Obvious

Ocean

One Day At A Time

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Quotes by Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

…when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

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 systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Design work doesn’t just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Improving your process won’t move you from good to great design. It’ll move you from bad to average.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

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