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Discussion on: What's your favorite software idiom/aphorism?

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Oh, there are so many. One of my favorites, though, comes from Fred Brooks:

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

You know Brooks from Brooks's Law:

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

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Andrew Reese

Oof, some old managers/owners needed to hear those