Prior to Genesis, God wrote this note to establish the essential, universal and unequivocal law of all projects. It applies only to things carried out by sentient creatures--natural processes like erosion, glaciers and supernovae don't have budgets or schedules. Some designers like to refer to it as the triad of time, scope and money, but this simpler version clarifies the issue more effectively.
Unfortunately, people like to sustain delusions about the control that they have over time and and resources. This leads to planning scenarios where everyone convinces themselves that endeavors will be completed quickly, cheaply and of a high level of quality. Someday, with advanced psychological techniques, good education, and powerful drugs we might be able to purge this thinking from the human mind, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
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