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From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.object
Subject: Re: Software "Engineers"
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.015053.15858@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 01:50:53 GMT
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In article <1652@inset.UUCP> mikeb@inset.co.uk (Mike Banahan) writes:

>Let me just quote Henry Ford at you: "An engineer can design for ten cents
>what any damn fool can do for a Dollar".

An engineer can also design for a Dollar what a damn fool can never do.
Some engineers can also design for Ten Dollars what a damn fool cannot
even understand.  This is why the damn fools don't let engineers do
engineering (in one field of engineering, anyway).
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.