Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Every Complex Problem Has a Solution

Solve the real problem. (Posted by Jerry Yoakum)
"To every complex problem, there is a simple solution... and it is wrong!" - Wlad Turski

Be highly suspicious of anyone who offers you something like, "Just follow these 10 simple steps and your software quality problems will disappear." Or, "Subscribe to our software services and all your monitoring, logging, debugging, etc problems will be solved."

For your interest, Turski's quote is a simplification of the following quote by H. L. Mencken.

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
  • "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)