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“By sheer intellectual force, plus some argument and banging on the table, he maintained architectural consistency across six engineering teams,” said Frederick
by LandoCalrissian 11y ago
“By sheer intellectual force, plus some argument and banging on the table, he maintained architectural consistency across six engineering teams,” said Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
This is one of the more impressive things to me. Keeping that many people on the same page is an amazing feat.
- tempodox 11y agoIndeed, combining the intellectual prowess with the necessary banging on the table is a valuable mix.
- pjmorris 11y agoFred Brooks might've been thinking of him when he wrote "Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest." [1] [1] Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
- cafard 11y agoBrooks's interview at the Computer History Museum mentions an argument over byte size: "Gene and I each quit once that week, quit the company, and Manny Piore got us back together." (http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/11/102658255-05-01-acc.pdf http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...)