Carolina QuotesSome people have called the book the "bible of software engineering". I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.
Fred Brooks Carolinian
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As quoted in Quoted Often, Followed Rarely, ; About the 1975 The Mythical Man-Month.
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- 1975
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