In the end, our task as engineers is to build systems that do their job (i.e., meet the guarantees that users are expecting), in spite of everything going wrong.
This s a great definition of what an engineer shpuld stride to be: someone who builds things to solve problems in an environment riddled ith problems and whithout guarantees. The ultimate remise is that it has to work and exist. Being pretty or perdect violates this premise.
