"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
— Pregnancy

January 1, 1970

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Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975; 1995), p. 17, cf. Theodore von Kármán (1957): "Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month."