To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing … - Fred Brooks

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As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Fred Brooks

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

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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.

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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.

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Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

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

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