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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought- stuff.
  He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination....
• 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...
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• Castles in the air -- they're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build, too. -- Henrik Ibse
• Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month
• How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
  -- Frederick 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...