32 | | In the Mythical Man-Month [[Cite(brooks87,author=Fred Brooks,title=The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, |
33 | | year=1995,publisher=Addison-Wesley, url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month)]] |
34 | | there is an much referenced article, No Silver Bullet. |
| 32 | A classic paper on software projects is Fred Brooks' No Silver Bullet [[Cite(brooks1995,author=Fred P. Brooks\, Jr.,title=The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, edition=Anniversary Edition,institution =University of North Carolina,year=1995,publisher=Addison-Wesley,isbn=ISBN 0-201-83595-9,pages=179-203,url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month)]]. I would also recommend reading Eric Sink's Career Calculus [[Cite(sink2003,reftype=electronic,author=Eric Sink,title=Career Calculus,url=http://www.ericsink.com/Career_Calculus.html,year=2003,month=Aug,day=19)]] and Paul Graham's Great Hackers [[Cite(graham2004,reftype=electronic,author=Paul Graham,title=Great Hackers,url=http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html,month=Jul,year=2004)]]. |
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| 34 | If you are more interested in patents, try Nikola Tesla's first "Free Energy" patent [[Cite(tesla1901,reftype=patent,assignee=Nikola Tesla,address=New York\, NY,number=685957,title=Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy,day=5,month=Nov,year=1901,dayfiled=21,monthfiled=Mar,yearfiled=1901,nationality=United States,url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=YitoAAAAEBAJ)]]. |