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"Michael P. Edison" <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - His DNA is this long.
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Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:11:53 -0400
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>Estimating is an art... I consider calling any occupation an art imples
that
you use reason & science and couple it with a facility of emotional
intelligence.
<

I couldn't read this without thinking back to my days in engineering school
when we still used slide rules, and you could easily be off by factors of
10 or 100 unless you quickly developed a gut feeling for whether the
numbers you were crunching seemed to jive with what you inherently knew
about reality.

Mike E.

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