Absolute statements in IT that are wrong

Posted by Dan McGrath on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Dan McGrath
Published on 2010-12-21T13:28:59Z Indexed on 2011/01/07 6:57 UTC
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I was recently in a discussion about the absolute statement "It costs more in programming time to optimise software than it costs to throw hardware at a problem".

The general thought (of which I agree with) is that as an absolute statement this is wrong. There are too many variables to ever generalise in such a way.

What other statements do you hear about software/programming that simply do not work as an absolute and why?

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