Never Loose a technical argument ...

Don't you just love sitting in a technical meeting and hearing all the jargon that flies by :) ?
Well, sometimes some of the sentences mentioned are heard over and over. I wanted to capture the most common ones and see how you can address them properly :).

1. That won't scale. - In other words, We' ll need to spend more money to make this happen. It's pretty easy to win that one. Just say "Why?"
2. Unfortunately, the license would contaminate our product. - Managers will attempt this all the time :).
3. How is that going to impact the schedule? - Just say "this has been acounted for in the project plan".
4. I like your idea. Why don't you write up a white paper and we'll review it at the next staff meeting? You only fall for that trap once or twice :).
5. Have you LOOKED at the number of I/O requests that will create? Always respond with - so I presume you have, save us the time - how many are we talking about and why?
6. Let's table this for now, and we'll talk about it one-on-one off-line. Now you know what they really mean....

Please let me know if you heard other ones :)
-Thanks for reading