Mythical Man Month

I am reading the Mythical Man Month, a book by Fred Brooks, about management of software projects. The titular man months refer to calculations in the planning of projects that equal men with months. It is in this book where Brooks quips famously: "adding manpower to a late software project, makes it later."

The book is a great read, short and to the point. Brooks shares from his experiences managing software projects, among others the OS/360, an operating system. The OS/360 was very ambitious and very late. One of Brooks' lessons is the second system effect, which predicts (I am simplifying) that the second system of a project manager will be much better than the first one.

Each chapter starts with a quote. Such as this one from genesis:

Chapter 11: 1 Now all the earth had one language and the words were common [to all].
2 And men moved east, and they found a plain in the land of Shinar 1 and they settled there.
3 And they said to each other, each to their fellow, "Come. Let us make bricks, and let us bake them with fire." They used brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.
4 Then they said, "Come. Let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower, the top of which reaches the heavens. So let us make a name for ourselves lest we be scattered over the face of the entire earth."
5 But Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built,
6 And Yahweh said, "See! The people are one and their language is the same for all of them. And now they have begun to do this; in the future nothing that they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come. Let us go down and let us confuse their language so that they will not understand each other's language, each will not understand their fellow."
8 So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Because of this, the name of the city is called "Babel," 2 because Yahweh confused the language of the entire world, and Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the entire world.

Bibel translation by Richard Hooker.

I wonder what other people think of this bible passage.