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The business of software building isn't really high-tech at all. It's most of all a business of talking to each other and writing things down. Those who were making major contributions to the field were more likely to be its best communicators than its best technicians.

— Tom DeMarco Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age (1995)

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The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

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A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.

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While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.

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