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“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.”

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W. C. Sellar

W. C. Sellar was an enigmatic writer whose career and life story remain unclear. His unique style and expression have had some influence on later generations. more

“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 readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”

“A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.”

Trying Principles Teach Independent Data Folly Files Processing Basic Principles

Author:Fred Brooks

“Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.”

Thinking Difficult Program Perfection Programming Requirements Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Adjusting Computer Programmers

Author:Fred Brooks

“Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.”

Identity Designer

Author:Fred Brooks

“There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.”

Order Technology Development Promise Management Simplicity Decades Technique Productivity Improvement Magnitude Reliability

Author:Fred Brooks

“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.”

Plans Management Pilots

Author:Fred Brooks

“It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers”

Littles Jobs Difficult Method Defense Managers Data Vigorous Plausible Hunches

Author:Fred Brooks

“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.”

Needs Shows Tables Obvious Show Me

Author:Fred Brooks

“Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.”

Men Needs Feels Humans Lost Force Chiefs Exception Apology Humanitarianism Human History Redeeming

Author:Ralph Barton Perry

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