Some Wisdom ....
ISO happens and I find myself doing some deep UML research.
The article itself will not interest you, unless of course you are interested in Software Modelling. But these memorable quotes are hilarious, esp. the ones in italics.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.—Philip K. Dick
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.—Author Unknown
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.—Abraham Maslow
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.—Edmond de Goncourt
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.—George Santayana
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.—Nikolai Gogol
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.—Confucius
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.—Henry David Thoreau
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.—Oscar Wilde
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. —H. H. Williams
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.—David Starr Jordan
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.—Jim Horning
Men have become fools with their tools.—Thomas Elisha Stewart
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.—Henry David Thoreau
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.—Henry P. Fairchild
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge.—Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. —Wu Ting-Fang
posted by 0.5 @ 13:22
3 Comments:
I love that one about awry faces and mirrors, so on point.
Kwani you are still in development? I thought you were more of a business analyst or the guy who writes queries to extract data. So are you guys adopting some ISO's for your IT department. If so pole sana, it means you will have to spend lots of time writing process and procedure documents.
Yeah I am still in Development. We are two core Windows/.Net/SQL Server developers, with the rest of the folks merrily hiding behind PL/SQL and Oracle workflows.
I have already written a thick architecture template for all new development projects in IT.
No prizes for guessing that my name will be seen nowhere when the damn thing is finally published.
Errr ...as for writing documents, I am not planning on doing that ......
I have an idea to write a template that uses the most arcane models, detailed such that any reader will fall asleep by line 6 of paragraph one; Then, I will use that for all projects. Woe unto the guy who will be validating those designs.
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