Any job I do-if it doesn't work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That's the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right. (Charles Stross)

Any job I do-if it doesn't work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That's the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.

Charles Stross

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