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As an interesting counter-point, here's Tesla's opinion on Edison: " His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get
by lkozma 17y ago
As an interesting counter-point, here's Tesla's opinion on Edison:
" His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. "
- staunch 17y agoBrings to mind the masses of spaghetti code, with thousands of embeded SQL queries, that power(ed) many very successful sites.
- lucifer 17y agoTesla was practically a demigod and quite dear, but "worst is better" was the governing principle even in the heydays of the industrial revolution. That said, your post doesn't make sense. Tesla applied his book learning consistently. I don't see how Tesla is a "counterpoint" to the OP's post.
- lkozma 17y agoThe title and post implied that we probably often overthink/plan things, and we should jump in and start implementing (earlier). According to the quote (if Tesla was right), even such an immensely successful person as Edison tended to plan/learn too little. Which means that probably we plan too little as well, not too much, assuming that we<=Edison. It's a counterpoint in this sense. Also I think it is only a typo, but "WorsT is better" made me smile ...
- lucifer 17y ago:) It was a typo. We can agree to disagree re. Tesla. We have no authoritative insight regarding his "over thinking", but my gut feeling is that the wheels were constantly spinning in his brain.