syrinx

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

Software Engineers might forget that the set The Universe includes the sub-set Idiots which includes the sub-sets Bigger Idiots and Better Idiots, and that within the overlap of these sub-sets is included the sub-set of Software Engineers.

tags: software idiots usability engineering programming computers