Thought for the day

[fenton]

"'Mature', in a software sense, just means that it has some idea what it wants to be when it grows up, and has gotten at least a few steps along the path to that. It doesn't mean that what it wants to be isn't a poo-flinging monkey." -- me (discussing it with someone else a few minutes ago, albeit slightly rephrased to make sense in a standalone

Comments

[zylch]

I reckon this applies to people as well. Mind if I nick it and rephrase it to reflect that?

[fenton]

Not in the least, nick away.

And yes, it really is applicable in many broader contexts (in fact, the original context that led to me saying it about software was actually about the world an author created in a series of books, though 'poo-flinging monkey' was rather less pejorative in that instance).