You Can Tell The Difference Between Engineers, Scientists, And Managers In Today's High Tech Companies By The Questions They Ask.

You Can Tell The Difference Between Engineers, Scientists, And Managers In Today's High Tech Companies By The Questions They Ask.

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You can tell the difference between engineers, scientists, and
managers in today's high tech companies by the questions they ask.
Engineering: "How will this work?"
Science: "Why will this work?"
Management: "When will this work?"
Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
-- Jesse N. Schell

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Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?
Management: "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?...
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?...
Why work for a living when you can die for art?
How can you work when the system's so crowded?
How many QA engineers -- does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work....
How many Quality managers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
We've formed a quality circle to study the problem of why light bulbs burn out and to determine the best thing we as managers can do to enable light bulbs to work smarter, not harder....
To make it work, you have to DO the work.