i love this. Forwarding to a bunch of my friends and peers. On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:21 PM Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcg...@blomand.net> wrote:
> The development of software reminds me of the following story. I > view software and to some extent, hardware, to follow this process. > > As the story goes: The city fathers were building a new government > building and wanted to have impressive bronze doors at the entrances. > In order to make their selections, they boarded a bus and traveled to a > foundry that made bronze doors. As they toured the foundry they > observed the many steps used in the process of making the doors. At > the point they came to near the end of the process, they noticed a > fellow that was polishing a very large door. One of the city fathers > stepped over to the fellow, admired the gleam of the highly polished > door, and asked "how do you know you are finished?". The old fellow > never looked up, but kept on polishing, and replied "sonny, we never get > through, they just come take it away". > > And that's the story of software. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to r...@wc3t.us -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
