RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115848576290992814

Really love this elegant and pointed description of #SoftwareEngineering from @pluralisticCory Doctorow which immediately enters my personal hall of fame:

“Writing code is about making code that runs well. Software engineering is about making code that fails well.”

This pairs really well with Douglas Adams who once talked about the same topic (more or less) in his own, very funny way:

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”