What is the relationship between them? Literally, the answer is certainly 'not at all'.
However, they seem exhibiting inherently a sequential relationship, which applies to many of our daily software activities: being it prototying your new killer application, or writing your in-depth technical documentation/series, jumping onboard of the new project promising grand architecture and next-generation design (ohh...designed for the next generation??!), attending the first customer requirement meeting, stepping into an seemly intereseting tender, ......
No wonder Churchill once wrote (refering to writing): "it is an adventure; to begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant..."
How similar the different lines of life could be - but yet, not that pessimistic yet.
Churchill continued, "the last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public".
I am pretty sure he wrote all the above statement in a retrospective manner: when we are striving to do the best work we could, we forget about the little pessimistism and crossed the growing doubt; when we reached our end and looked back, suddenly the existence of the pessimistism is felt strongly, against the memory of so-full-sized monster.
Still, wish every tyrant monster that is elaborated would be killed in the end.
Posted
Nov 20 2006, 03:31 PM
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blackinkbottle