Fred Brooks Quotes

I used to work the graveyard shift.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I have a thing about stars, they are my favourite motif.

I am not afraid of star names.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them