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• 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....
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.
  -- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- 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....
• 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....
• Castles in the air -- they're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build, too. -- Henrik Ibse