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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of...

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Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

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Fred Brooks

Software Engineer

Born: 1931-04-19

Died: N/A

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was a computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, most famous for managing the development of IBM's System/360 Computer family hardware and then OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards.More