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• As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear, bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete, or putatively less buggy.
  The replacement of a working component by a new version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and efficient test cases will usually be available....
• As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear, bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete, or putatively less buggy.
  The replacement of a working component by a new version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and efficient test cases will usually be available....
• The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
  -- Frederick P. 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...
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
  I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
• It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
  I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
• 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....