"Communication is the massless ropes and frictionless pulleys of time management: it is often, quite imprudently, modeled as of negilible impact on the behavior of the system.
"It's not. Communication takes time. Memos, emails, budgets, schedules, specs aren't instantaneous to write or to read. The myriad communications which have to take place between the members of a complex project has enormous time overhead."
-- siderea,
2005-06-07