The ability to immediately see what's wrong with things can be useful, but can also be dangerous. It's the stuff that obsessions are made of, if left unchecked.

The ability to immediately see what's wrong with things can be useful, but can also be dangerous. It's the stuff that obsessions are made of, if left unchecked. Where computers are concerned, I agree that people have a tendency to ignore the flaws. And I guess that's because they find computers enough of a nuisance already, if they started paying attention to what's wrong with them, they would find that they cause more problems than they solve. I have submitted countless bug reports, often in the first few days of usage. And I have stopped using some software for the sole reason that their creators didn't pay enough attention to fixing bugs. I can certainly identify with the author's premise. But I think this is more that just seeing what's wrong with stuff: it's more about knowing that perfection can't be reached, but not because we didn't point out what needs to be done to reach it.