The best tech quote from a movie Apr11 '06
Joanna: So, where do you work, Peter?
Peter Gibbons: Initech.
Joanna: In... yeah, what do you do there?
Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
Joanna: What’s that?
Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits instead of four. So, like 98 instead of 1998? Uh... so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn’t really matter. I uh... I don’t like my job, and, uh... I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore.
I love this quote, particularly because I do a lot of database admin stuff, and it makes me laugh every time to think of the incompetence of a company to put their own ignorant principles in place, without understanding how it will affect the future.
Specifically - "... to save space, they used two digits instead of four."
This is hilarious, and absolutely "on target" for tech people - because that is exactly what an incompetent and ignorant company would do - try to save space in the short run, but pay the price in the long run.
Now... no real company would ever do this, but for the purpose of the movie, Office Space, this quote fits right in.
Brilliant.
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