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• when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
  -- Fred Brook...
• The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor.
  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once....
• 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...
• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion.
  An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely....
• This, then, is the demythologizing of the man-month.
  The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints....
• 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....
• Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month
• computer hardware progress is so fast. No other technology since civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price gain in 30 years.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr....
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...