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Why do you have to go and make everything so complicated?

28/1/2013

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One of the more durable, corporate bingo-lingo phrases, one that's muscled its way into wider usage is the exasperated cry: “It's not rocket science”, or as my wife has it: “It's not rocket salad”.  As we know, it means that our problems shouldn't be hard to understand or solve, compared to something properly difficult like launching a rocket.

I was reading a book about the space race the other day and there was an interview with a rocket scientist. And he said when he tells people what he does for a living, they assume he must be some kind of superbrain. But he says rocket science pretty much follows Newton's third law of motion about every action having an equal and opposite reaction. The engineering involved just isn't very complicated.  Or as he put it. “The thing is, rocket science isn't rocket science.”     

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