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Originality is no excuse for ignorance.
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Ignorance
No Excuses
Originality
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Successful software always gets changed.
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Learning
Changed
Programming
Successful
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Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
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Baby
Nine
People
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Predictability and great design are not friends.
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Design
Great Design
Not Friends
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Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.
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Abandoned
Dissertation
Finished
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Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.
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Learning
Computer Language
Programming
Scientist
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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Computer
Programming
Projects
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Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
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Plans
Programming
Software
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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Late
Manpower
Software
Adding
Project
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How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
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Late
One Day
One Day At A Time
Time Day One Day At A Time
Does
Year
Day
How
Project
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The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.
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Models
Waterfalls
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Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.
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Design
Design Work
Requirements
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Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.
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Ifs
Impress
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Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.
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Complexes
Humanity
Software
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Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.
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Design
Eating
Process
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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
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One Day
One Day At A Time
Procrastination
Years
Time Day One Day At A Time
Time Day One Day
Does
Behind
Year
Project
Schedule
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System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.
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Debugging
Done
Night
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Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
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Design
Important
Integrity
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A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.
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Engineers
Order
Scientist
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Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
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Experience
Good Judgment
Judgment
Bad
Experience Good Bad
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System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.
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Astronomy
Debugging
Occupation
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Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
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Firsts
Planning
Programming
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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Patience
Children
Matter
Nine
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I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.
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Quality
Convinced
Integrity
Products
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An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."
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Sea
Three
Two
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Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.
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Community
Improvement
Practice
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The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
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Building
Hardest
Software
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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
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Time
Calendars
Gone
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Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
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Design
Average
Moving
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Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
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Perfection
Requirements
Thinking
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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
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Designer
Identity
Designers
Experienced
Systematically
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Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.
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Jobs
Language
Purpose
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But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.
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Arguing
Knowing
Requirements
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A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.
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Data
Independent
Trying
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I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.
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Flow
Program
Writing
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
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Chance
Fixing
Introducing
Maintenance
Problem
Program
Defect
Fundamental
Substantial
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Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
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Design
Different
Thinking
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Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.
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Communication
Men
Tasks
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Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
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Design
Important
World
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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.
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Running
Creativity
Strong
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Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
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Garbage Cans
Important
Jewels
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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.
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Giving
Passion
Race
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A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
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Design
May
Style
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The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
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Management
Pilots
Plans
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Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
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Needs
Obvious
Tables
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The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.
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Diversity
Powerful
Self
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
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Amusing
Arbitrary
Comfort
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A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.
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Men
Dumb
Syntax
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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.
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Color
Media
Pride
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The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.
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Abstract
Essence
Essentials
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