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* Related quote: "It's better for a ship to have one bad captain than two good ones."
* The [[Jargon File]] contains the analogous entry for Brooks' Law, which states that "Adding manpower to a late project makes it later", with mathematical justification; dividing a task among N people gets the work done in ''O''(N) time, but actually coordinating that work and getting it merged back into a completed project takes ''O''(N^2) because of duplication, intercommunication problems (two people on a project have one line of communication (A<->B); four people have six), and general laziness (if there's a hundred people on a task, there will be a few who think they don't need to pull their weight).
* It is a partly tongue-in-cheek rule of thumb in Hollywood that the more people are credited as "script" or "writer" on a film, the more likely it is that the movie will be [[So Bad It's Horrible]].
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