Someday

It was probably in 2004 that my friend Nathan briefly set up his signature so that it said something along the lines of the title of this blog.

Up until I heard this, I'd spent years explaining to people that the tradeoff between quality, budget, and schedule as a sort of triangle where unfortunately, in the real world, in my experience, to the best of my knowledge, etc. ... building web sites / applications / yada yada required people to make decisions they'd rather not make about what it was that they wanted versus what they wanted to pay for it and how long they were willing to wait for it.

I've never had the guts to actually tell a client or stakeholder that they could have fast, cheap, or good if they could only bring themselves to accept that they could only get two. My theory is that one of the reasons that I have a job doing web stuff has something to do with my intermittent efforts to be diplomatic, even helpful.

But someday I'm going to crack, and I'll probably snarl something to someone that they just need to decide which two they want. Which will no doubt be the end of that particular opportunity.