25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
9:10 a.m.
On 25 Oct 2011 at 10:50, Mouse wrote:
"The most amazing achievement of the computer
software industry is its
continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski
I remember an Intel engineer summarizing this more succinctly
somewhat like this:
"We work hard to build chips with amazing performance and the
software people piss it all away."
--Chuck