If you just implement the spec without talking to anybody, you'll end up with code that solves the wrong problem. Good, then they'll pay you again to write it

If you just implement the spec without talking to anybody, you'll end up with code that solves the wrong problem. Good, then they'll pay you again to write it a second time. As the Demotivator definition of consulting puts it: "if you can't be part of the solution, there's lots of money to be made prolonging the problem."