Fred Brooks Quotes About Design
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Predictability and great design are not friends.
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Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.
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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
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Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.
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The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.
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Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
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Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
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A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
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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
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Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
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