Quote to Note: Complexity
March 9, 2010
Listen up, azure chip consultants, poobahs, mavens, and self appointed experts. What do you think of this quote to note?
It’s just so difficult for people to understand the complexity of the thing. They don’t have the background. They don’t have the time to do an investigation. They want to oversimplify a thing that can’t be oversimplified.
Who is the speaker? David E. Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan and an engineer. The source? The Washington Post’s article “Frank Ahrens: Why It’s So Hard for Toyota to Find Out What’s Wrong.”
Germane to search, content processing, and taxonomy consistency (the next big train wreck for some folks)? Absolutely. When a tangible product with supporting software is tough to troubleshoot, what do you think about a hack-a-matic like many content management systems and some enterprise search systems.
Yep, the gurus are able to simplify. The details are irrelevant. Buzzwords do the “real” trick.
Stephen E Arnold, March 9, 2010
No one paid me to write this. But I did mention Toyota, so I suppose I have to report non payment to the Federal Highway Administration. I wonder why the roads in the US deteriorate more rapidly than the roads in France? Maybe it is the compound? Another troubleshooting job?
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