What did Fred Brooks mean by: The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA Copy
+ Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. Author, October 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Fred Brooks, Engineering, Learning, Science, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Activity, Comparison, Time, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ Originality is no excuse for ignorance. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Fred Brooks, Excuse, Ignorance, Originality, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Inform, Presentation, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Design work doesn’t just satisfy requirements, it elicits them. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Creativity, Innovation, Inspiration, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Projects, Software, Time, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Imperfection, Learning, Planning, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community’s practice. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, Fred Brooks, Efficiency, Growth, Quality, 0 Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. William Morris Designer · England
