How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
"Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr." is a computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous scientists! More Fred Brooks on Wikipedia.Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
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