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Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken. — Fred Brooks

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. — Fred Brooks

Originality is no excuse for ignorance. — Fred Brooks

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. — Fred Brooks

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. — Fred Brooks

Nine people can't make a baby in a month. — Fred Brooks

Predictability and great design are not friends. — Fred Brooks

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important. — Fred Brooks

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice. — Fred Brooks

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

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow. — Fred Brooks

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

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it. — Fred Brooks

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. — Fred Brooks

Successful software always gets changed. — Fred Brooks

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them. — Fred Brooks

An ancient adage warns, Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. — Fred Brooks

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think. — Fred Brooks

Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress. — Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time. — 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. — Fred Brooks

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource. — Fred Brooks

Product procedure ... must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. — Fred Brooks

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. — Fred Brooks

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night. — Fred Brooks

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

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build. — Fred Brooks

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. — Fred Brooks

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

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. — Fred Brooks

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm. — Fred Brooks

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced. — Fred Brooks

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned. — Fred Brooks

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. — Fred Brooks