Wednesday, January 23, 2008

QOTD

"But we have to foresee all sorts of unforeseen circumstances!"

I swear I am not making this up. One of my colleagues just said this during a heated discussion about whether it was possible to account for all kinds of user scenarios.

That's why you shouldn't put a bunch of stressed-out, discussing engineers in the same room for more than three hours!

8 comments:

  1. That sounds familiar in the software industry (esp from over-expecting managers!)

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  2. He he that' really funny. Did everyone laugh after this or did it still go on to be a serious meeting...

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  3. Sumana - :-)!

    Saumya - I know!

    Archana - the rest of us were in splits after this declaration :-D. It was a nice stress-buster - hehehe!

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  4. hehe, I think I should pen such things down. We have one joker who comes up with such precious lines.

    Lady, u are tagged ;)

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  5. Hilarious. Too much stress brings out creativity. This way, may be you would author a book soon.

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  6. ROTFL! :--)
    Legitimate stmt, when it comes from an engineer ;--)

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  7. Rads - lol - you shd preserve that person's thoughts for posterity too ;-)! Yup yup, shall get to the tag!

    Joy - hehhe - that would be nice :-)!

    SK - lol :-D!

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