The Technicalities Matter A Lot, But The

We Live In Media, As Fish Live In Water.

The Technicalities Matter A Lot, But The Unifying Vision Matters More.

I Am Looking At It From The Point Of View Of A Harried User, Which I Am, And I Believe That I Am Much More Like The Typical Non-technical Harried User Than I Am Like The People Who Smoothly Operate Everything.

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.

Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled.