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A. Whitney Brown
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Frederick P. Brooks
As we look to the horizon of a decade hence, we see no silver bullet. There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
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.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Milestones must be concrete, specific, measurable events, defined with knife-edge sharpness.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.