The Nature of Software Development

“This book is some words and pictures from someone on the same mountain, who has found a reasonably flat and pleasant place to sit and look around for a while. He looks outward and sees the amazing vista that's almost always out of sight behind our back as we climb. He looks down the mountain andsees its shape and sees the climbers moving upward, some not as well as he did, some much better. He sees the paths on the mountain and can tell which ones are easy, which ones are hard, which ones are safe, and which ones are dangerous.”