Fred Brooks Quotes

• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Building, Software, Hardest

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• Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

  Fred Brooks

  Baby, People, Nine

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• Añadir mano de obra a un proyecto de software tardío lo hace más tardío

  Fred Brooks

  Computer, Projects, Programming

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.

  Fred Brooks

  Important, Details, Want

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• You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Reality, Faces

  "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

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• A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Order, Scientist, Engineers

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

  Fred Brooks

  Procrastination, Years, One Day At A Time

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• El parto dura nueve meses, independientemente del número de mujeres asignadas.

  Fred Brooks

  Patience, Children, Matter

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

  Fred Brooks

  Impress, Ifs

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• La parte más difícil de la tarea del software es llegar a una especificación completa y coherente, y gran parte de la esencia de la construcción de un programa es, de hecho, la depuración de la especificación.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Essence, Arriving

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• El programador, como el poeta, trabaja sólo ligeramente alejado del puro pensamiento. Construye sus castillos en el aire, a partir del aire, creando mediante el esfuerzo de la imaginación. Pocos medios de creación son tan flexibles, tan fáciles de pulir y reelaborar, tan fácilmente capaces de realizar grandes estructuras conceptuales.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Creating, Air

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

  Fred Brooks

  Sea, Two, Three

  "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

  Fred Brooks

  Maintenance, Delay, Execution

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• Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Order, Cds

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• 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.

  Fred Brooks

  Needs, Tables, Obvious

  "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

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• Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

  Fred Brooks

  Humanity, Software, Complexes

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• Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

  Fred Brooks

  Firsts, Planning, Programming

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• La depuración de sistemas, como la astronomía, siempre se ha hecho principalmente de noche.

  Fred Brooks

  Night, Debugging, Done

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• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Waiting, Choices

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• Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

  Fred Brooks

  Design Work, Design, Requirements

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• El problema fundamental del mantenimiento de programas es que arreglar un defecto tiene una probabilidad considerable (20-50%) de introducir otro. Así que todo el proceso consiste en dar dos pasos adelante y uno atrás.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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• I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

  Fred Brooks

  Integrity, Quality, Products

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• I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

  Fred Brooks

  Writing, Flow, Program

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• Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

  Fred Brooks

  Communication, Men, Tasks

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• Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

  Fred Brooks

  Abandoned, Dissertation, Finished

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