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It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.
Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!
Classic project management quote.
It's from "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks. It was published in 1975. I've seen people make the same project management mistakes that the book discussed for the last 30 years.
Sorry to break it to you, but that's almost 50 years.
Ive always heard that one from a Project Management perspective. Ive used it myself once or twice actually!
Nine women can average one baby per month, but only with an extra nine months of pre-planning.