Fortunately, the labassigned the job to a very competentmaterialsengineerwhowent the extra mile by analyzing the fuse after subjecting it to briefcurrentpulses.
But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.
Our starting point was the eye-catching assertion last year by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that a single great software engineer can be more valuable than 100 others who are merely competent.