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• Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary.
  No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks, Jr....
• Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build
  They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard....
• To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God
  that He did not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering, and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his works....
• 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....
• In the pitiful, multipage, connection-boxed form to which the flowchart has today been elaborated
  it has proved to be useless as a design tool -- programmers draw flowcharts after, not before, writing the programs they describe....
• The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.
  Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence....
• 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...
• Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)...
• 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...