April 14, 2003

You guys will figure it out

At the company where I work as a software developer we have a production section of the building where our custom hardware is assembled, tested, and burned in. The new software product that we are working on right now is a large complex system that has taken years to design and build. We are still adding features, fixing bugs, and testing.

So anyway, there is a guy who works in the back testing some of our hardware, and he came up to me the other day while I was updating the system with the latest build and asked me how it was going. I told him how there was still a lot left to be done before our ship date, and he said:

You guys will figure it out.

and it made sense to me. This is one of the main reasons that I like what I do; you can say with a straight face that you are solving little technical puzzles everyday - that you are solving little mysteries. And we will, by the way, figure it out.

April 14, 2003 02:10 PM