Craftsmanship
Joel Spolsky · Apress eBooks · 2004
Making software is not a manufacturing process. In the 1980s everyone was running around terrified that Japanese software companies were setting up “software factories” that could churn out high-quality code on an assembly line. It didn’t make any sense then and it doesn’t make sense now. Shoving a lot of programmers into a room and lining them up in neat rows did not really help get the bug counts down.