Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Fraternité
As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break.
By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.
He liked the casual look of the basement of Westborough. The jeans and so on. Several talked about their flexible hours. No one keeps track of the hours we work, said Ken Holberger. He grinned. That’s...
Much of the engineering of computers takes place in silence, while engineers pace in hallways or sit alone and gaze at blank pages.
Often, they said, it is the most talented engineers who have the hardest time learning when to stop striving for perfection. West
Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
The mind that relies on cliché does not really know what it is saying.
When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal sy...
You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Adopting a remote, managerial point of view, you could say that the Eagle project was a case where a local system of management worked as it should: competition for resources creating within a team in...
Among engineers generally, the most common form of ambition—the one made most socially acceptable—has been the desire to become a manager. If you don’t become one by a certain age, then in the eyes of...
Between Holberger and Veres there exists a kind of technical understanding that outruns the powers of speech. Most Hardy Boys share this specialist’s ESP to some degree. It’s a feeling that some good...
In a book called Computer Power and Human Reason, a professor of computer science at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum writes of a malady he calls the compulsion to program. He describes the afflicted as br...
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer’s power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though su...
One shouldn't expect anyone to be complete at any given moment.
When others write about people who live on the edge, who challenge their comfortable lives—and it has happened to me—they usually do it in a way that allows a reader a way out. You could render genero...
When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn’t care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.
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