Many technical minded people tend to think that if something will eventually fail, it's not worth doing. There's an old joke about a horse trainer who was orde

Many technical minded people tend to think that if something will eventually fail, it's not worth doing. There's an old joke about a horse trainer who was ordered by his king, under penalty of death, to teach his horse to speak. So he very methodically starts to do just that. When asked why he's trying to do the impossible, he answers: "Teaching takes a long time. Maybe the king dies. Maybe the horse dies. Or maybe the horse learns to talk."