From: jkraw3@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:43 PM
To: 928
Subject: [928] Philosophy. (no 928 content)

I found this while researching cameras, but its so true to just about
everything else too.


"Let's say two teams of engineers, one Japanese, the other German, need
to bolt two pieces of metal together.  The Japanese engineers will run all
these computer simulations and stress calculations and then come up with 
this ingenious little bolt that no one has ever seen before.

"The German engineers still do the stress calculations, but at the end of
it all, they look at each other and say, 'Ah -- what ze heck.  Let's use
two bolts.  And make them big ones.' "


John