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Favourite technological word

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mentioned that his favourite word was "Just" as in, "it just works" which often hides a massive amount of work done by others to make it happen for you.

 

My favourite is "Simply" which comes up in our requirements statements. e.g. "It simply needs to guide the rocket and land on the asteroid". We find it used most when the person writing the request has no idea at all about what needs to be done.

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  • Perhaps Kipling said it best:

     

    By Rudyard Kipling  

     

     

    (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

       If you can keep your head when all about you 

      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 

    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

        But make allowance for their doubting too; 

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

        Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

        And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:


    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; 

        If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; 

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

        And treat those two impostors just the same; 

    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

        Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

        And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:


    If you can make one heap of all your winnings

        And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

    And lose, and start again at your beginnings

        And never breathe a word about your loss;

    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

        To serve your turn long after they are gone, 

    And so hold on when there is nothing in you

        Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’


    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

        Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

        If all men count with you, but none too much;

    If you can fill the unforgiving minute

        With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, 

    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, 

        And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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  • Perhaps Kipling said it best:

     

    By Rudyard Kipling  

     

     

    (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

       If you can keep your head when all about you 

      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 

    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

        But make allowance for their doubting too; 

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

        Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

        And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:


    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; 

        If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; 

    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

        And treat those two impostors just the same; 

    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

        Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

        And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:


    If you can make one heap of all your winnings

        And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

    And lose, and start again at your beginnings

        And never breathe a word about your loss;

    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

        To serve your turn long after they are gone, 

    And so hold on when there is nothing in you

        Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’


    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

        Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

        If all men count with you, but none too much;

    If you can fill the unforgiving minute

        With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, 

    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, 

        And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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