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This is funny, but there's a lot of truth in it as well - UML is not a silver bullet, nor is MDA - but a lot of people think they are. This is the best bit:

42 fever. As opposed to the celebrated "42" being the answer to any question about life or the universe, as suggested in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, those afflicted with 42 fever argue that "UML" is actually the correct answer. The classical symptom of those afflicted with 42 fever in the sphere of software engineering is to have an a priori delusion that UML is the solution for all software-engineering problems. Research has shown that the delusion in victims of 42 fever can be significantly reduced by secretly playing subliminal messages in their work areas emphasizing that UML's creators did not intend for it to be the answer to all of software engineering's dilemmas