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• The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
  -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month...
• The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
  - 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...
• 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....
• 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
• Each team building another component has been using the most recent tested version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece.
  Their work will be set back by having that test bed change under them....
• 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...