Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
Fred BrooksTo only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.
Fred BrooksProduct procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
Fred BrooksThe programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Fred Brooks