Alexandre Marcondes > Alexandre's Quotes

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Adding manpower to a late software project, makes it later.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“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.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices—wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices. The cook has another choice; he can turn up the heat. The result is often an omelette nothing can save—burned in one part, raw in another.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them (Fig. 2.1). This is true of reaping wheat or picking cotton; it is not even approximately true of systems programming.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, cleaner, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
― John Scalzi