[erik123]

Given the fact that all corruption starts with the corruption of language, you will quickly have a good idea of what someone's job is. In programming, contradictory ambitions are pointless, because machines won't work properly if you allow them. In business or politics, you don't face machines but other people. It is perfectly normal for a business person or a politician to hide the contradictions in what he says by skillfully using and abusing meaningless words. The conflict between programmers and business people/politicians is that the latter are not aware of the fact that their contradictions may work absolutely fine in marketing or advertizing but that they will not fly if the field of software. Here a link to Orwell's "Politics and the English language": https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm. He is way more proficient than me at explaining what the problem is all about. By the way, this is the real reason why healthcare.gov from the get-go never had a snowball's chance in hell to go live for a reasonable budget and within the desired timeframe.

[informatimago]

Indeed. Check http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/