Separate concatenated fortunes.

Remove unattributed duplicate of Frederick Brooks eternal words
about the danger of second systems.
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@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ the back of your truck, and the other one is honking the horn!"
her birthday. An hour later, when wandered through the house, he found her
looking at a puddle in the center of the kitchen. "My pup," she murmured
sadly, "runneth over."
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Catching his children with their hands in the new, still wet, patio,
the father spanked them. His wife asked, "Don't you love your children?"
"In the abstract, yes, but not in the concrete."
@ -671,10 +672,13 @@ dog's stuck in its throat."
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A horse breeder has his young colts bottle-fed after they're three
days old. He heard that a foal and his mummy are soon parted.
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A crow perched himself on a telephone wire. He was going to make a
long-distance caw.
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A musical reviewer admitted he always praised the first show of a
new theatrical season. "Who am I to stone the first cast?"
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A hard-luck actor who appeared in one colossal disaster after another
finally got a break, a broken leg to be exact. Someone pointed out that it's
the first time the poor fellow's been in the same cast for more than a week.
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my 'gator."
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A man who keeps stealing mopeds is an obvious cycle-path.
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A man pleaded innocent of any wrong doing when caught by the police
during a raid at the home of a mobster, excusing himself by claiming that he
was making a bolt for the door.
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A farm in the country side had several turkeys, it was known as the
house of seven gobbles.
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A man was reading The Canterbury Tales one Saturday morning, when his
wife asked "What have you got there?" Replied he, "Just my cup and Chaucer."
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A women was in love with fourteen soldiers, it was clearly platoonic.
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Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills.
Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max."
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@ -1245,24 +1254,6 @@ perfect Latin. The crowd doesn't understand a word of it, but they're
impressed and they cheer again. The Russian astronaut stomps out, clenches
the podium until his knuckles turn white, glares at the first row and
screams: "Anybody got a match?"
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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He
knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully
and with great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and
embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get
stored away to be used "next time." Sooner or later the first system
is finished, and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated
mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs.
When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will
confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems,
and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that
are particular and not generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using
all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile."
-- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows
he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great
@ -1280,6 +1271,7 @@ generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all
the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.
The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile".
-- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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An eighty-year-old woman is rocking away the afternoon on her
porch when she sees an old, tarnished lamp sitting near the steps. She