Would you rather take economic advice from one of the many, MANY economic grey-beards who couldn't possibly handle the stress of a game show? Especially that show! Besides, to list the game show as Mr Stein's only accomplishment is a serious injustice. Take a long hard look at the things he's done, and then decide if you'd like to take his advice. Or, better yet, ignore his amazing career and let his words stand on their own merit.
In my not-so-bloody-humble opinion, America started losing it's edge when we first started putting the emphasis on process instead of product. All of the ISO-9000's and CMM level 5 stuff just makes the developers care LESS about the product. Since the bean-counters only care about the beans, it means that NOBODY is left to care if the product does anything that the user would want it to do. (And don't reply saying that the fine folks in Quality care... They don't care about the product, they only care that you did what you said that you were going to do.)
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Would you rather take economic advice from one of the many, MANY economic grey-beards who couldn't possibly handle the stress of a game show? Especially that show! Besides, to list the game show as Mr Stein's only accomplishment is a serious injustice. Take a long hard look at the things he's done, and then decide if you'd like to take his advice. Or, better yet, ignore his amazing career and let his words stand on their own merit.
In my not-so-bloody-humble opinion, America started losing it's edge when we first started putting the emphasis on process instead of product. All of the ISO-9000's and CMM level 5 stuff just makes the developers care LESS about the product. Since the bean-counters only care about the beans, it means that NOBODY is left to care if the product does anything that the user would want it to do. (And don't reply saying that the fine folks in Quality care... They don't care about the product, they only care that you did what you said that you were going to do.)