top of page

"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., American Computer Scientist

Chance, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."

Exlpore more Chance quotes

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Chance, Memory, Poison

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Chance, Fate, Irony, Hope

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Chance, Man, Reason, Taste

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides, Greek Poet

"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."

Joe Lando, American Actor

Chance, Play, Want

"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Chance, Truth, Hope, Inspirational, Power

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Chance, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Chance, Fact, Reading

"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Chance, Luck, Knowledge, Life, Curiosity

Explore more quotes by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."

Technology, Development, Management, Improvement

"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."

Chance, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."

Identity, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."

Project, Software, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time."

Time, Day, Project, Frederick P. Brooks

bottom of page