Something to keep in mind when comparing CS with traditional engineering: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154 http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154 Excerpt: Whe

Something to keep in mind when comparing CS with traditional engineering: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154 http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154 Excerpt: When they had reached the other side, Kaimu asked the first monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?” The first monk said: “The determination of a true engineer is an enviable thing. But if we were to work in such an inflexible fashion, the Emperor would surely drown us in our own Waterfalls.” Kaimu asked the second monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?” The second monk said: “The frugality of a true engineer is an enviable thing. But if we were to cling so hard to yesterday’s technology, the Web would not exist for another thousand years.” Kaimu asked the third monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?” The third monk said: “The predictability of a true engineer’s world is an enviable thing. But ours is a world always in flux, where the laws of physics change weekly. If we did not quickly adapt to the unforeseen, the only forseeable event would be our own destruction.” The first monk asked: “Master... what has the bridge-builder learned from us?” Said Kaimu: “Nothing yet. But when I touch a lit candle to the oil I sprinkled from my lantern during our crossing, he will learn the reason to plan for the absurd, the virtue of rebuilding in stone, and the wisdom of not insulting your customers.”