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Engineers are funny animals. If you tell an engineer about a problem, any problem, his first instinct is to measure it. Tell an engineer you don’t love him anymore and he’ll ask for a graph of your love over time so that he can understand exactly how big the problem is and when it started.
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Phil Lapsley (Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell)