Quotations By Famous People

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How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
What we do not understand we do not possess. - Goethe
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...
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers.
Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all bu...
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time.
At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice.
disciplined thinking focu...
GOTO statement considered harmful" - E. W.
Dijkstra, title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)...
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars.
The emperor has no clothes.

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