And yet, if you can wait three years for the first wooden boat, it can often be at the head of a convoy which will keep you busy for many thousands of year

And yet, if you can wait three years for the first wooden boat, it can often be at the head of a convoy which will keep you busy for many thousands of years, sometimes even orders of magnitude more if you take a minute to request that another convoy sets out. - James Gray I was going to make a point about random access of one bit vs. sequential access of large portions of data, but the comment from google+ above summed it up perfectly. Thanks for posting. A very insightful analogy, really putting things into perspective.