bluetrust

I had to tell a client, last night, that 18,000 questions in a questionnaire isn't reasonable.

I felt he wouldn't understand the scope of the problem unless I put it in real-world terms, so I pointed out that it would take two days of computer time to process the results and when printed would be a tower of paper five feet tall. If one were to thumb through one page every three seconds, it would take twenty-three hours to reach the end and you still wouldn't have any idea about what it was about.

Still, I fault myself for not figuring out a way it could work and charging them a dollar a question.