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• 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...
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- 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...
• Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- 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....
• This, then, is the demythologizing of the man-month.
  The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints....
• 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....