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• computer hardware progress is so fast. No other technology since civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price gain in 30 years.
  -- Fred Brook...
• 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 so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor.
  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once....
• 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...
• when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr....
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. 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...
• Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct because no two parts are alike.
  If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed....