The solution to pollution is dilution
Brad, I've been thinking about pithy expressions for a line of <futurework> sweatshirts that we could wear at conferences, or when we hold our seminars, pontificate to the media, ride the subway, visit our accountants, or go for those necessary extended hikes above tree-line or precious hours fly-fishing by the river. If I ever get around to doing anything about the sweatshirt idea, with your permission your exhortation will be one of the first to be emblazoned on the first issues. All proceeds to the worthy cause of the week.
But you know this exhortation was "received wisdom" in America in the 1930s, or so I seem to have read (no citation available). A similar piece of wisdom was that a river cleans itself every 5 miles. No, this is not original with me.
At work, last week, I did, however, find that something I do think I originated has gotten around (how much it has "sunk in" is a different issue):
The shortest distance between two points is a good
user interface.Somebody posted a cartoon of some techie's idea of a good user interface: all sorts of dials and digital readouts displaying inscrutable readings of various internal components of some system's innards, all crammed together.
My other motto at work is more subversive:
Do unto programmers and tech support persons
as you would have them do to end users.If *that* was taken seriously, we would have some major changes in the technical workplace.
I have posted more of my experiences and thoughts from 30 years of being a computer [programmer...] on my website, at:
http:/www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/computerAphorisms.html#credo
\brad mcormick
Cheers / Bob Este / Ph.D candidate / U of Calgary _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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