I used to hear it frequently when I rubbed elbows with more software guys. Maybe not in exactly those words, but you can tell, when a software guy budgets 1 month to design the hardware and 11 months to "do the majority of the work" (aka write the software)
E.g. at one company the engineering VP was a quintessential hardware guy. He understood hardware complexity; he knew little about software. He never could understand that software could also be hard to do.
I didn't mind, I was a hardware guy. But the software people were definitely sucking hind tit.
