Fred Brook’s Law of Punctuality

I am discovering more and more recently that Fredrick P. Brook’s “Law of Punctuality” is absolutely true. It states that:

“Traffic, construction, wrecks, weather, flat tires and running out of gas rarely server to make you late; rather, they almost always serve only to make you later“

I need to start getting up earlier…

Oh, and I made that law up and attributed it to Fred for fun. In case you don’t know and didn’t click on the link above, Fred Brooks is a very influential software developer who wrote the now legendary “The Mythical Man-Month” which is a must read for any software developer who gives a crap.

About the Author

Christopher McCulloh

E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

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