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• Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month
• 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...
• The Chief Programmer) personally defines the functional and performance specifications, designs the program, codes it, tests it, and writes its documentation.
  .. He needs great talent, ten years experience and considerable systems and applications knowledge, whether in applied mathematics, business data handling, or whatever....
• 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...
• An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
  He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint....
• 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...