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Tom DeMarco - Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987)

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People under pressure don't work better; they just work faster.

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While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.

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The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

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Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

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If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

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Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

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Born: August 20, 1940 (age 84)
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