OT - Final edition before release

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

  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


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[rich hurd WC3T]

i love this.  Forwarding to a bunch of my friends and peers.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:21 PM Bob McGraw K4TAX <[hidden email]>
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
>
>
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Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737
Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting
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[k6dgw]

While the Division Chief Engineer and an the obligatory cake and "Happy
Birthday" in the conference room, each singing in his or her own key, I
was presented with a framed notice:

"There comes a point in every project when one must shoot the Engineers
and go into production."  I hung it over my desk.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 1/17/2020 9:21 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX 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

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[Lyn WØLEN]

I used to have a plaque on the wall in my office that read:

 

Software is never finished

                  ... it's abandoned.

 

I believe it’s true that software is as much art as science.  In fact, Leonardo da Vinci is widely credited with having said it first:

 

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

 

73

Lyn, WØLEN

 

 

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i love this.  Forwarding to a bunch of my friends and peers.

 

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:21 PM Bob McGraw K4TAX <[hidden email]>

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

>

>

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Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737

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