Alexandre Marcondes

“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

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

“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

“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