> "A good engineer knows when to use an analogy, and where it breaks down" If you learn nothing else, learn this. I listened to a conversation where a senior

> "A good engineer knows when to use an analogy, and where it breaks down" If you learn nothing else, learn this. I listened to a conversation where a senior person was explaining something with an analogy. The junior person kept having problems with the edges of the analogy, where it breaks down, and the senior person just kept trying to explain the analogy. Analogies, parables, shortcuts all have breakdown points, you have to know them, or they will bite you.