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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a read more
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power read more
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will read more
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
