Must read articles on software development
There are order-of-magnitude differences among programmers: Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of “10x”
It takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
“there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.”
No Silver Bullet
Hackers and Painters
What if you need a zero-bug software… They Write the Right Stuff
