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Ha, ha. Actually Feynman believed that software was a time sink, and would lead you down a rabbit hole of doing busywork solving puzzles that arose from creatin
by yawaramin 12y ago
Ha, ha. Actually Feynman believed that software was a time sink, and would lead you down a rabbit hole of doing busywork solving puzzles that arose from creating levels of abstraction on top of each other.
As it turns out, he was mostly right!
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- Coding_Cat 12y ago"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches--if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that--and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine." Straight from the man himself. Page 79 of [PDF warning] http://buffman.net/ebooks/Richard_P_Feynman-Surely_Youre_Joking_Mr_Feynman_v5.pdf http://buffman.net/ebooks/Richard_P_Feynman-Surely_Youre_Jok...