Any Nitwit Can Understand Computers, And Many

I Am A Design Chauvinist. I Believe That Good Design Is Magical And Not To Be Lightly Tinkered With. The Difference Between A Great Design And A Lousy One Is In The Meshing Of The Thousand Details That Either Fit Or Don't, And The Spirit Of The Passionate Intellect That Has Tied Them Together, Or Tried. That's Why Programming - Or Buying Software - On The Basis Of "lists Of Features" Is A Doomed And Misguided Effort. The Features Can Be Thrown Together, As In A Garbage Can, Or Carefully Laid Together And Interwoven In Elegant Unification, As In Apl, Or The Forth Language, Or The Game Of Chess.

Regularity Chauvinists Are People Who Insist That You Have Got To Do The Same Thing Every Time, Every Day, Which Drives Some Of Us Nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - We Need A More Positive Term For That. Hummingbird Mind, I Should Think.

You Can And Must Understand Computers Now.

Telling Computer Guys That They Need To Have Permission To Quote Things Is Like Having To Tell Little Children About Death.

The Good News About Computers Is That They Do What You Tell Them To Do. The Bad News Is That They Do What You Tell Them To Do.