Comments on: How Far We Got http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1829.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ferran Jorba http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1829.html#comment-2365 Ferran Jorba Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:35:45 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1829.html#comment-2365 I believe that the original one is by Frederick Brooks in <i>The Mythical Man Month</i>: "Show me your flow charts and conceal your tables and I shall continue to be mystified, show me your tables and I won’t usually need your flow charts; they’ll be obvious." I believe that the original one is by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month:
“Show me your flow charts and conceal your tables and I shall continue to be mystified, show me your tables and I won’t usually need your flow charts; they’ll be obvious.”

]]> By: Wade Leftwich http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1829.html#comment-2364 Wade Leftwich Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:32:03 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1829.html#comment-2364 "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man-Month" “Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.”

— Fred Brooks in “The Mythical Man-Month”

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