"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence."
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
"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"Some 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"Brookss Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
Fred Brooks"The programmers primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules data structures."
Fred Brooks"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
Fred Brooks"Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose."
Fred Brooks