Software Engineering Thought for the Day

I emailed the following tripe brimming over with run-on sentences to my wife yesterday:

There's something profoundly satisfying with completing some seemingly long task in under a minute after putting forth the time, effort, and energy to build a well-architected solution to enable such a quick turnaround. It's almost magical, because in constructing the architecture you see only your application's guts and then, once the foundation has been laid, you can go from no exterior to a fanciful fascade in such speed that it's nearly alarming how simple it was to move from absolutely nothing an end user could interact with to a complete end user experience.

THE MAGIC OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING!

I don't know what's better - the fact that such a statement can lead to a thirty minute conversation between my wife and I, sharing experiences where we had experienced the “magic,” or the fact that my wife puts up with these trite platitudes that have about as much insight as the statement, “The government taxes too much.”