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• Quote #661 The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specificatio
  and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification....
• Quote #632 Present to inform, not to impress; if you inform, you will impress.
  -- Frederick P Brook...
• 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...
• 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....
• A little retrospection shows that although many fine
  useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers....
• The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time to come.
  One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach...
• The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time to come.
  One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach...
• How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
  -- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...