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> Interestingly, Suovaniemi didn’t attribute his inventions to diligence or tireless ambition, but quite the opposite. “I’m extremely lazy by nature,” Suovaniem
by SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
> Interestingly, Suovaniemi didn’t attribute his inventions to diligence or tireless ambition, but quite the opposite. “I’m extremely lazy by nature,” Suovaniemi once told an interviewer, so “I created a pipette with nine channels.”
Engineering is all about laziness. The whole field is about making devices & structures to reduce overall labor required. Engineers need a certain sort of laziness, a willingness to work now in order to work less later (or to help others work less later). Tireless ambition rarely leads to good engineering, it leads to continued drudgery.
- adolph 3y agoI think 1319 better represents this comment than 1205. In addition to laziness/efficiency, curiosity and lateral thinking are helpful qualities. https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
- robocat 3y agoWhat is the law of engineering that causes an abundance of complexity? There's some entropy law of abstraction that is the opposite of Occam's razor: take a simple idea and embellish it until it is sophistimicated enough to require total reengineering to decomplexify it.