Software Development Axiom

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 21 Apr 2003 8:58 am

My boss recently sent out this quote to our software development team:
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

-- Donald Rumsfeld
02/12/03 Pentagon briefing<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Strange how universal some truths are.

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Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 21 Apr 2003 9:22 am

Or.. the time honored SW deliverable criteria:

1) Fast delivery
2) Cheap cost
3) Robust operation

The customer may pick any two...

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 22 Apr 2003 4:31 am

Let's just hope it won't be followed by orders to invade Sun Microsystems.

David Reeves · Post by **David Reeves** » 22 Apr 2003 4:40 am

I read that quote,
Over and Over, I read it...
Now I got a headache.

Doug Garrick · Post by **Doug Garrick** » 22 Apr 2003 5:57 am

I've always known that I don't know what I don't know.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 22 Apr 2003 6:24 am

I didn't know that.

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 22 Apr 2003 8:49 am

I recently had to take a discrete math course for my Master's Degree and I actually remember my professor saying this. I can't remember who originally said it, but it was not a Donald Rumsfeld original.

However, it is a great quote.

Mark

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 22 Apr 2003 10:30 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>"There's another way to phrase that
and that is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

rumsfeld again... a continuation of the quote above widely reported.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 22 Apr 2003 5:27 pm

The only thing I know for sure is I don't know for sure.(I think)

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Roger Evilsizor · Post by **Roger Evilsizor** » 23 Apr 2003 11:47 pm

Man, you guys are lucky. I always have to ask my other half what I know and she tells me how long I've not known it.

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Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 24 Apr 2003 7:07 am

Jim, did you know that you didn't know that?

W. Edwards Demming-- the statistician—always talked about the “unknown” and the “unknowable”. The latter he used statistics to estimate or characterize… Sure has it’s place in software!!!

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Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 24 Apr 2003 7:39 am

Didn't know what?

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 24 Apr 2003 7:50 pm

The software we promised to send you last Tuesday will absolutely, positively be ready by this Friday.

maybe

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 27 Apr 2003 5:43 pm

One of Buck Owens famous "last words" during his shows was to end up introducing Tom Brumley as the last one after all the other band members had been introduced.

And this is what he said,

"Folks, you talk about people who don't know nuthun?"

"Well this feller don't even suspect nuthun"

carl

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 27 Apr 2003 10:58 pm

Gee b0b, you have a BOSS?

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b0b · Post by **b0b** » 28 Apr 2003 4:40 pm

Surely you didn't think I was making a living off of the Steel Guitar Forum, did you, Peter?

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