Each software project is a battle in a neverending war

[text] This picture from World War Il a soldier carrying a donkey. It is not that the soldier loves donkeys or has some sort of perversion. Whats happening is that the field is mined and that if the donkey was free to wonder as it pleased it would likely detonate a charge and kill everyone. The moral of the story is that during software development the first ones you have to keep under control are the clients who dont understand the danger and do as they please.