A quotation from the full collection:
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. [They] build castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.
—Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. [They] build castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.
—Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month