Fred Brooks Quotes About Effort

• 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 approach an order of magnitude.

  Fred Brooks

  Average, Order, Differences

  "No Silver Bullet". Book by Fred Brooks, 1986.

• When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Effort, Tasks

• The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

  Fred Brooks

  Engineering, Discipline, Effort

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