Quotes by Fred Brooks

About Fred Brooks:

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

Fred Brooks

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Fred Brooks

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks

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

Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

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.

Fred Brooks

Author Bio

  • NameFred Brooks
  • DescriptionAmerican computer scientist
  • BornApril 19, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMathematician; Computer Scientist; Engineer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Turing Award; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; IEEE John Von Neumann Medal