Frederick Brooks citáty

Frederick Phillips Brooks je americký informatik, ktorý v roku 1999 dostal Turingovu cenu za významné príspevky v oblasti architektúry počítačov, operačných systémov a softvérového inžinierstva. Je známy ako vedúci vývoja operačného systému OS/360 , o ktorého vzniku napísal knihu The Mythical Man-Month. Zaoberá sa tiež virtuálnou realitou a molekulárnou grafikou.



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Frederick Brooks: Citáty v angličtine

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

Page 17, cf. Theodore von Kármán (1957): "Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month."
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)

“Some people have called the book the "bible of software engineering". I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.”

As quoted in Quoted Often, Followed Rarely, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/index.htm;About the 1975 The Mythical Man-Month.

“An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."”

Page 64.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)

“How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.”

Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)

“Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

Page 25 (italics in source, bold added).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)

“Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0_Lzb1CJw#t=01h19m00s
"The IBM System/360 Revolution"
recorded by the Computer History Museum
April 7, 2004.

“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”

Brooks (1975, Chapter 9) as quoted in Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, by Steve C. McConnell

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