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• A little retrospection shows that although many fine
  useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers....
• More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time to come.
  One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach...
• Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct because no two parts are alike.
  If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed....
• This, then, is the demythologizing of the man-month.
  The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints....