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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: hackers
Message-ID: <2534@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 23:58:45 GMT
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Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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Pity the poor "hacker". He does the job. He makes it work. Then
people say, "But you didn't go about it the right way. It's sure
to cause horrible trouble later on." 

What to do?  

Form your own startup company; bank a few million for yourself; 
and face the impending doom with equanimity!


                          ...


Pity the poor computer "scientist".  He pretends to know how
to do things that nobody knows how to do.  His projects slip,
month after month.  But that's okay.  He had a design, with Gant-
charts, and circles and arrows, and man-month projections. It just
needed a few "revs".  Rev 14 still has bugs. People say he must have
done it wrong. 

What to do?

Become a professor; ship no product; and never be wrong again!