This is a quote from Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man Month".
“Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
Great insight. What's also remarkable is this book is over thirty years old. In technology, we like to talk about how much and how fast things change - and they do, however there appear to be lots of things that remain timeless.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
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At least one component in technology isn't changing very fast.
That component is called 'human'. :)
Some books are timeless. I was on the MUNI a few days ago. Someone was reading K&R. I still have my copy as it was by far the best C book ever written.
I must admit I do feel like I have been on the same project for the last 15 years. People change, the requirements change a little but basically it is generally the same set of issues.
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