There was a software engineer, who used to develop programs on his Pentium
 machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his
 bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market.

 One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in
 the river. Encouraged by his childhood story of the lumberjack and axe, he
 started praying for the river Goddess. River Goddess wanted to test him and so
 appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers.

 The engineer told her that he lost his computer in the river. As usual, the
 Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She picked up a match box and asked, "Is
 this your computer?" Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of computer awareness,
 "No," replied the SWE. Then she picked up a pocket sized calculator and asked
 if that was it. Annoyed by this, the SWE said, "No, not at all." and also
 thought of educating the Goddess about computers. Then she picked up his
 Pentium and asked if it was his. The SWE, left with no option, sighed and said
 yes and took his machine.

 The Goddess was happy for his honesty and was about to give the previous
 objects also to him. But even before she could make the offer, the SWE asked
 the Goddess, "Don't you know that you should show me some better computers,
 before bringing up my own?"

 Goddess, apparantly angered at this, replied, "I know that, you stupid donkey!
 The first two things I showed you were Millennium and Trillennium, the latest
 computers from IBM." and disappeared. The Pentium followed her.

 MORAL: IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH, BETTER KEEP QUIET.
 CONCLUSION: HARDWARE DEVELOPS FASTER THAN A SOFTWARE ENGINEER.