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What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
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Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
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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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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
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How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back..
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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
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Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.
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