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The computer has brought a similar fluidity to many other media: artistic drawings, building plans, mechanical drawings, musical compositions, photographs, video sequences, slide presentations, multimedia works, and even to spreadsheets. In each case, the manual method of production required recopying the bulky unchanged parts in order to see changes in context. Now we enjoy for each medium the same benefits that time-sharing brought to sof..
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Radically better software robustness and productivity are to be had only by moving up a level, and making programs by the composition of modules, or objects. An especially promising trend is the use of mass-market packages as the platforms on which richer and more customized products are built. A truck-tracking system is built on a shrink-wrapped database and communications package; so is a student information system. The want ads in comput..
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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This really does attack essence. Because the build-on-package phenomenon does not today affect the average MIS programmer, it is not yet very visible to the software engineering discipline. Nevertheless, it will grow rapidly, because it does attack the essence of fashioning conceptual constructs. The shrink-wrapped package provides a big module of function, with an elaborate but proper interface, and its internal conceptual structure does n..
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built. So it must be with our software systems.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices--wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices. The
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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It is more important that milestones be sharp-edged and unambiguous than that they be easily verifiable by the boss. Rarely will a man lie about milestone progress, if the milestone is so sharp that he can't deceive himself. But if the milestone is fuzzy, the boss often understands a different report from that which the man gives. To supplement Sophocles, no one enjoys bearing bad news, either, so it gets softened without any real intent to..
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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The number of months of a project depends upon its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends upon the number of independent subtasks.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Now I do not think software managers have less inherent courage and firmness than chefs, nor than other engineering managers. But false scheduling to match the patron's desired date is much more common in our discipline than elsewhere in engineering. It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunc..
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Even a small amount of use-scenario experience is better than none.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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the conceptual integrity of a system determines its ease of use.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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When a child has learned this architecture, he can tell time as easily from a wristwatch as from a church tower.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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testing is usually the most mis-scheduled part of programming.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Second, our estimating techniques fallaciously confuse effort with progress, hiding the assumption that men and months are interchangeable.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his data. Representation is the essence of programming.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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not only the whats of the design, but also the whys by which it was reached.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Almost invariably I have made wrong assumptions about how they would use the new tool.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Over-specified implementations cost way more than they should, with little added function or performance.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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Cosgrove has perceptively pointed out that the programmer delivers satisfaction of a user need rather than any tangible product. And both the actual need and the user's perception of that need will change as programs are built, tested, and used.[3]
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. (DUTCH PROVERB)
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Organizations must be designed around the people available; not people fitted into pure-theory organizations.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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The opportunity to be creative and inventive in implementation is not significantly diminished by working within a given external specification, and the order of creativity may even be enhanced by that discipline.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
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And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal. C. S." --
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And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal."
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Churchill made a point about the power of government: A National or Municipal Beef Trust, with the United States Treasury at its back, might indeed give more regular employment at higher wages to its servants, and might sell cleaner food to its customers--at a price. But if evil systems corrupt good men, it is no less true that base men will dishonor any system, and while no bond of duty more exacting than that of material recompense regula..
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Lafitte turned up in yet another tangle of major, historic proportions during the 1960s. Around the time of the JFK assassination, Lafitte worked for the Reily Coffee Company and then as a chef for the World Trade Mart, both in New Orleans. William B. Reily, an avid anti-Communist, owned the Reily Coffee Company and was closely connected to McCarthyite and rabid anti-Communist Edward Scannell Butler, who were both close to CIA assistant dir..
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H. P. Albarelli |
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A. J. P. Taylor |
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Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Taylor's Law states: "The Foreign Office knows no secrets."
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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A. J. P. Taylor |
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
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A. P. Herbert |
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,For mother will be there.
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A. P. Herbert |
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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
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A. P. Herbert |
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravityAre constructed with considerable care.
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A. P. Herbert |
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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A. P. Herbert |
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
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A. P. Herbert |
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Was the cow crossed?""No, your worship, it was an open cow."
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A. P. Herbert |
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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A. P. Herbert |
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Most people: they take birth. Earn a living, and, then, they die. Never follow them.
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
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Thinking should become your capital asset, whatever ups and downs you may come across in your life.
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