The collection of metaphors in this chapter moves out beyond the construction theme. These will help give you a wider picture of the various facets of software projects and applications.
A metaphor is a device for seeing something in terms of something else. It brings out the thisness of a that or the thatness of a this.
—Kenneth Burke [Burke 1945 p. 503]
Here’s an example to get you started: Some software applications can be compared to supertanker ships. These ships respond slowly to steering ...
