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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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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 ...more

I’m a poet and I didn’t know it!

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“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: Essays on Software Engineering

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“Boyd’s Law: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.”
― Yevgeniy Brikman, Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams

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“The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

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“The best thing you can do to come up with a lot of new ideas is to learn a lot of old ideas. Because new ideas are just connections between old ideas, the more ideas you have in your head, the more connections you’ll be able to create between them.”
― Yevgeniy Brikman, Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams

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

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