begin  quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:08:54AM -0700:
[snip]
> Design is a verb, implying intent.  And sometimes what we intend to
> happen is not what really happens.

What we intend to happen is _often_ not what really happens.

Programmers don't _intend_ to write buggy code, or to introduce security
flaws.

>                                     Besides that, a temp has different
> angles of attack than global warming.  You could just as easily say,
> "Of course the temp can take out the Internet!  It was designed to
> withstand global warming, not temps!"

Heh.

Nothing can withstand a temp.

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