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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
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.
Fred Brooks, Jr.
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
James L. Brooks
I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.
Fawn M. Brodie
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
William E. Brock
It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma.
William J. Broad
The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Claude M. Bristol
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Claude M. Bristol
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.