[OT] was Ubuntu has gone!

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Thu, April 23, 2009 06:34, dwain wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
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>> -Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers
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> at risk of hijacking this thread, what does the above mean?

That quote is attributed to Leonard Brandwein.
I don't know who he is, just found that on Google.

The quote means that programmers are software people. If they carry a
screwdriver, they will do something with hardware, something they are not
familiar with.

There is a similar quote, attributed to Rich Cook
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cook):

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a program patch and a user with
an idea.

As Wikipedia says it: "(...) computer inside jokes, and is better enjoyed
by those who have a background in computers."

If we all are humble enough, we will have to admit that one time in the
past we were a programmer, an engineer or a user, and we thought that we
had a brilliant idea about a field of expertise that was not our own. And
then the sh!t hits the fan.
Life gives us lessons, sometimes with a slap in our face. We learn and we
move on.

-- 
Amedee