Quoting Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 1975

I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas.

— Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 1975 (via)

7:01pm on August 24, 2020 from Wellington, New Zealand.


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