Frederick P. Brooks
(1931 - )
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Science Quotes by Frederick P. Brooks (3 quotes)
[Brook's Law:] Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
— Frederick P. Brooks
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
(Referring to adding manpower to a software project.)
(Referring to adding manpower to a software project.)
— Frederick P. Brooks
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.…
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.
— Frederick P. Brooks