Shipping software is ... like getting a stadium full of babies to all have clean diapers at the same time

Oh, I just had to share: <quote> Writing software is actually quite easy. Writing good software is relatively harder, but still easy. Writing software to a programmer is like painting to a painter. Shipping software is an incredibly complicated task. It’s like getting a stadium full of babies to all have clean diapers at the same time with only one or two people to do the work. As soon as you fix one thing, you discover more crap. The process stinks and you’ll never reach the end. Those who do it either by printing a CD, uploading a binary, or pushing out changes to a tier of web servers know what I’m talking about. </quote> http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2011/08/17/on-firefox-versioning/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.