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Good engineering is the differnce between code running in eight minutes or eight hours. It affects real people in real ways. It's not a "matter of opinion." any more than a bird taking a flight is a "matter of opinion."
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM) by Ken Henderson
ISBN: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Page: 337 This book is available from Amazon
While there is certainly an artistic element to engineering, nobody cares what color the bridge was that collapsed and killed fifty people.
ISBN: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL This book is available from Amazon
At some point uou have to decide wheather you're going to be a politician or an engineer. You cannot be both. To be a politician is to champion perception over reality. To be an engineer is to make perception subservient to reality. They are opposites. You can't do both simultaneously.
ISBN: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Page: 97 This book is available from Amazon
"Don't fix it if it ain't broke" presupposed that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventiors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
ISBN: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Page: 23 This book is available from Amazon
