[951] in Humor
HUMOR: Computing Lies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Jun 29 10:46:50 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:38:05 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 23:04:45 -0700
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: "Michael Beyries" <mbeyries@smtpgate.Chelmsford.Telebit.COM>
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From "Computing News."
Three Biggest Software Lies:
0 The program is fully tested and bug free.
0 We're working on the documentation.
0 Of course we can modify it.
Three Biggest Hardware Lies:
0 We always design for testability.
0 It worked fine on the proto board.
0 That would be much easier to implement in software.
Three Biggest Engineering Professor Lies:
0 Some day this course will come in handy.
0 These tests are more trouble for me than they are for you.
0 This is the way they do it in the industry
The Three Propositions:
0 Software engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark
room.
0 Systems engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark
room in which there is no cat.
0 Knowledge engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark
room where there is no cat and someone yells, "I got it!".
