Gene Amdahl, Gerrit Blaauw, and Fred Brooks (1964) "Architecture of the IBM System." in: IBM Journal of Research and Development Vol 8 (2) p. 87-101.
Frederick Brooks: Citations en anglais
“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."
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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.
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)
Page 7.
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As quoted [paraphrased] from * http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html
Java World
1999
July
Toolbox
“How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.”
Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
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Source: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995), Pp. 102–3.
Page 55.
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“Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
Page 25 (italics in source, bold added).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0_Lzb1CJw#t=01h19m00s
"The IBM System/360 Revolution"
recorded by the Computer History Museum
April 7, 2004.
Brooks (1975, Chapter 9) as quoted in Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, by Steve C. McConnell
Page 116 (italics in source).
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