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## Quotes from Robert Glass: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering ##
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My favorite bytes from the wonderful book [Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83792.Facts_and_Fallacies_of_Software_Engineering) By [Robert Glass](http://www.robertlglass.com/)
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* People trump tools, techniques, and process.
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* The problem is a culture that puts schedule conformance, using impossible schedules, above all else—a culture that values schedule so highly that there is no time to learn about new concepts.
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* Runaway projects, at least those that stem from poor estimation, do not usually occur because the programmers did a poor job of programming. Those projects became runaways because the estimation targets to which they were being managed were largely unreal to begin with.
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