A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. - Fred Brooks

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It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

Fred Brooks

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

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You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

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The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.

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Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

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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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Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

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