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From: dc@sci.UUCP (D. C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.object
Subject: Re: Software "Engineers"
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Date: 26 Apr 91 18:23:36 GMT
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In article <1652@inset.UUCP> mikeb@inset.co.uk (Mike Banahan) writes:
# Well, I'm not going to get sucked into this debate at length, despite
# that fact that I have some very strong views on it (I have been / am
# an engineer of both hardware and software for years).

  Me too.

# Let me just quote Henry Ford at you: "An engineer can design for ten cents
# what any damn fool can do for a Dollar".
# 
# He may have something there ...

  I prefer Heinlein's (inexact quote): "An engineer is a person who will 
  spend three hours figuring out how to do a two-hour job in one hour."

  Seems particularly appropriate to SE.

# Mike Banahan, Founder Director, The Instruction Set Ltd.


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