“The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).” MindEssentialsVicesDrivenDistinctionIrelandScotlandVice VersaScotchVisaScotsBrackets Author:W. C. Sellar
“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.” HalfLove YouEssentialsGardenGardeningForbiddenHeartedGardenerYou Like ItGarden LoveHalf Hearted Author:W. C. Sellar
“When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.” TwoTravelCamerasTrainSettingSettingsHolidayFunny TravelComing BackCab Author:W. C. Sellar
“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.” EasyStuffRealizingImaginationAirMediaCreationPoetPureCreatingCapableStructureProgrammingFlexibleCastlesPolishProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesExertionComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersCastles In The AirRework Author:Fred Brooks
“A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.” TryingPrinciplesTeachIndependentDataFollyFilesProcessingBasic Principles Author:Fred Brooks
“Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.” ThinkingDifficultProgramPerfectionProgrammingRequirementsProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageAdjustingComputer Programmers Author:Fred Brooks
“Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.” IdentityDesigner 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.” OrderTechnologyDevelopmentPromiseManagementSimplicityDecadesTechniqueProductivityImprovementMagnitudeReliability 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.” PlansManagementPilots 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” LittlesJobsDifficultMethodDefenseManagersDataVigorousPlausibleHunches Author:Fred Brooks