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Fred Brooks

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

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

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Fred Brooks

Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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Fred Brooks

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

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

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Theodore von Kármán

You Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.

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.