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  1. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal.
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  2. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    And so from a statistical mechanical model, Belady and Lehman arrive for programming-systems at a more general conclusion supported by the experience of all the earth. "Things are always at their best in the beginning," said Pascal. C. S."
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  3. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    The opportunity to be creative and inventive in implementation is not significantly diminished by working within a given external specification, and the order of creativity may even be enhanced by that discipline.
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  4. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    Organizations must be designed around the people available; not people fitted into pure-theory organizations.
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  5. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.{DUTCH PROVERB}
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  6. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    Cosgrove has perceptively pointed out that the programmer delivers satisfaction of a user need rather than any tangible product. And both the actual need and the user's perception of that need will change as programs are built, tested, and used.{3}
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  7. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his data. Representation is the essence of programming.
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  8. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    Second, our estimating techniques fallaciously confuse effort with progress, hiding the assumption that men and months are interchangeable.
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  9. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.
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  10. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    testing is usually the most mis-scheduled part of programming.
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  11. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    When a child has learned this architecture, he can tell time as easily from a wristwatch as from a church tower.
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  12. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    On balance I think the microfiche was a very happy mechanism, and I would recommend it over a paper workbook for very large projects.
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