Fred Brooks Quotes

• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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

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• Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

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• There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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• How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

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Fred Brooks (7)

Birth:	19th April, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist, Software Engineer

About

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. was born in Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is an American computer scientist and software engineer, 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. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1956. He has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.

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