Fred Brooks

"Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."

"Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average app…"

"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."

"The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."

"The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not th…"

"…the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one as one learns, he changes the design . Management structures also need to be changed as…"

"A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passion…"

"How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time."