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• The management question, therefore, is not WHETHER to build a pilot system and throw it away.
  You WILL do that. The question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or promise to deliver the throwaway to customers....
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
• How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
  - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
• The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
  - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
• More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• The hypothesis: Amid a wash of paper, a small number of documents become the critical pivots around which every project's management revolves.
  These are the manager's chief personal tools. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...