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- From: canright@convex.com (Robert Canright)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:41:22 GMT
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- In <1993Jan8.010630.25706@inel.gov> whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray) writes:
-
- >I have it on very good authority (Yogi Berra, no less) that "prediction is
- >hard, especially when it's about the future." Computer scientists have less
- >excuse than Economists. How often do programming projects, which are by
- >definition of finite compass, and ususally of bounded complexity utterly
- >fail to work out as predicted? We computer nerds should be humble in the
- >face of the predictive power of Economics.
-
- Come on now, confess! The inability to predict software projects in a
- business setting is really a matter of being unwilling to confess the true
- cost! Get management a little pregnant & they've got to let the project
- come to full term, right? This is especially true in govenment/military
- environments.
-