If You're Utopian, You're Never

The Tree Of Research Must Be Fed From Time To Time With The Blood Of Bean-counters, For It Is Its Natural Manure.

Quite A Few People Have To Believe Something Is Normal Before It Becomes Normal - A Sort Of 'voting' Situation. But Once The Threshold Is Reached, Then Everyone Demands To Do Whatever It Is.

I Made Up The Term "object-oriented," And I Can Tell You I Did Not Have C++ In Mind.

Most Software Today Is Very Much Like An Egyptian Pyramid With Millions Of Bricks Piled On Top Of Each Other, With No Structural Integrity, But Just Done By Brute Force And Thousands Of Slaves.

I Think The Trick With Knowledge Is To “acquire It, And Forget All Except The Perfume” - Because It Is Noisy And Sometimes Drowns Out One's Own “brain Voices”. The Perfume Part Is Important Because It Will Help Find The Knowledge Again To Help Get To The Destinations The Inner Urges Pick.