Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The most dangerous myth is that managers are only added, not subtracted.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The design must be traceable to the customer's specification, but more importantly, the customer must be able to trace back to it from the operational program.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
We are so used to writing iterative control structures that we forget to worry about the trivial cases.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.Frederick P. Brooks Jr.