[cube00]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

[BurnGpuBurn]

The reference to Jurassic Park* is actually quite on point, given the dinosaur vba is.

*) I remember Jeff Goldblum saying something along those lines, though I imagine the quote could've come from someone else.

[kwhitefoot]

I think the knee jerk hatred of VBA is really odd. No other language has given more people an opportunity to create the tools they need.

[janjones]

Motto of many technical posts on Hacker News front page.

[punnerud]

That is how a lot of innovation start. That can benefit the company many times the combined time of these kinds of “procrastination”.

It is also a way to give employees motivation.

How else do do figure of “what you don’t know that you know”?