Design of Design, The Quotes

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“not only the whats of the design, but also the whys by which it was reached.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“In collaboration with Sharif Razzaque There are many ways of making a fool of yourself with a digital computer, and to have one more can hardly make any difference. SIR MAURICE WILKES [1959], “THE EDSAC” Be careful how you fix what you don’t understand.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Design Isn’t Simply Selecting from Alternatives, but Also Realizing Their Existence.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“the true implementers are intimately involved in the design process; their broad experience provides the balance for a designer’s limited implementation examples. (In”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Almost invariably I have made wrong assumptions about how they would use the new tool.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Even a small amount of use-scenario experience is better than none.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Over-specified implementations cost way more than they should, with little added function or performance.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist