More Words Of Wisdom

This chapter presents some sayings, and shows that they can be applied to the software industry as well. Raise up many students. Help them see reality for themselves; remove dependency-there is no hierarchy in true learning-Pirkei Avot (The Sayings of the Fathers) The first responsibility of a computer science or software engineering is to help the students to become independent, to give them wings, and to help them fly for themselves. Saru mo ki kara ichinru.-Japanese proverb This proverb means Even monkeys fall from trees. None of us are so great or so smart or so wise that we cannot falter. The greatest programmer can insert bugs, and the greatest tester can fail to discover an error. This advice should be taken by both leaders and followers.