> "Trust, but verify"

Even though my entire career has been software, I was an Electrical Engineering major, so I have taken VLSI design (and even designed an 8-bit ALU). My first job was writing embedded software, and would frequently "trust, but verify" the hardware through the use of a logic analyzer.

When I pulled out printouts from the analyzer to show the hardware team that the hardware had a bug, the surprised and incredulous look on their faces was priceless. The blow was somewhat softened by the fact that I'd also found a software bug.

The constant blame shifting between SW and HW teams is one reason I left that job after less than a year.