is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. This idea is known as Brooks’s law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.
"Some 2% of the world’s total energy is consumed by building and running computer equipment."
"Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it."
— Thomas J. Watson - IBM Founder
"In 1972, five former IBM employees – Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther – launch a company called Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing in Mannheim, Germany"
— SAP History: From Start-Up Software Vendor to Global Market Leader
"Could Google search the Web without knowing what it was looking for? Can an e-mail filter identify spam without reading it? Could an official count votes in an election without opening a ballot?"
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Hmm… never thought of that.
