Fred Brooks Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

  Fred Brooks

  Integrity, Design, Important

• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Mind, Fans

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

• Predictability and great design are not friends.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Not Friends, Great Design

• Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Eating, Process

• A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Style, May

• Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

  Fred Brooks

  Design Work, Design, Requirements

• Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Design, Different

• The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture

  Fred Brooks

  Data, Organization, Design

  "Architecture of the IBM System". IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 8, 1964.

• The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

  Fred Brooks

  Beach, Team, Ocean

  "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

• The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Essence, Design

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

• Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

  Fred Brooks

  Moving, Average, Design

• Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Important, World

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