>> I find it a sad thing that often great achievements and ruthlessness go hand in hand. “Hard times create strong men and strong men create good times” is a fa

>> I find it a sad thing that often great achievements and ruthlessness go hand in hand. “Hard times create strong men and strong men create good times” is a famous quote. I wonder if this applies to computing where in the early days RAM and clock cycles were limited so programmers and engineers had to be more creative and do more for less, where now it's just buy another GB RAM stick for $50USD and try again. I remember a youtube video with bwk (Brian Kernighan) and he was saying that when they were doing UNIX and computing in the 70s it was easy for them as they had all the low hanging fruit to pick where now you have to climb higher to get the fruit?