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by gizzlon 4505 days ago
The Second Law of Consulting: No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.

Gerald Weinberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg#The_secrets_of_...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/no-matter-what-they...

1 comments

haha, I love this guy..

Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.

No haha, this is just plain sexist and wrong. One of this wonky generalizations and why we don't have real software engineering yet.