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The Mythical Man-Month is a term coined in a book of the same name by Frederick P. Brooks, describing the unique problem of software development on correction of schedule slippage. It makes special mention of the fact that unlike other engineering problems when you fall behind schedule you can't just add people to the project and expect the extra hands to resolve the problem.
This is largely due to the idea that while a laborer can be added to the digging of a hole, in software development everyone’s idea, not only of what the hole is, but also the best way to dig it can vary widely and dramatically, leading to the idea that the addition of personnel to a development team will actually cause the schedule to slip more as they are made aware of the particulars of this 'hole' and the method being used by the existing team to 'dig' it.
The book is a classic text of software engineering. It was republished virtually unchanged (just an addition of a chapter) 20 years later.
The phrase No Silver Bullet was coined by Brooks to express his observation that the complexity of developing a large software system has not been reduced dramatically by any methodology of software design.
Further information should be included on the implementation of string theory in the modern technilogical age, look at the world through the eyes of the famous artist M. C. Escher and his simmilar facination with the perspective of an ant. This is a thread of visual art that can be seen actualized on a different scale through the eyes of the spanish painter, Salvador Dali. There is something out there that the famous postmodern and contemporary styilist of todays visual arts are grasping for that cannot be described with the short commings of our primitive languages. Communication has been best understood visualy and has been for centuries, simply look at the visual sign language of the egyptians, romans, and inca natives that have withstood the test time.