What did Fred Brooks mean by: The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA Copy
+ The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Waterfalls, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ An ancient adage warns, “Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.” Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Sea, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Engineers, Scientist, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community’s practice. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Community, Improvement, Practice, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Fred Brooks, Plans, Programming, Software, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ Design work doesn’t just satisfy requirements, it elicits them. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Design, Requirements, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Planning, Programming, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
+ More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Fred Brooks, Time, 0 - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
I think the hardest part about my job is the best part of my job – the travel. - Jeff Corwin Biologist
Now I know that I don’t have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I’ve got. - Jeremy Bonderman Professional baseball player · USA
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken. - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
