79 Quotes by 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.

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

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not “ours” in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world’s resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Improving your process won’t move you from good to great design. It’ll move you from bad to average.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.