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When An Idea Is Being Pushed Because It Is "exciting," "new," Or "innovative", Beware.
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When an idea is being pushed because it is "exciting," "new," or "innovative",
beware. An exciting, new, innovative idea can also be foolish.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
(If in doubt, don't. Or do what is right. Your best question is often, "Why?")
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HONESTY Honesty cannot be undervalued. And while I'm on the subject of honesty
have I told you about an exciting business opportunity that could make you thousands of dollars without hard work or expensive capital investment?...
creationism n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers.
In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong....
When elderly and distinguished scientists denounce a new idea, it will turn out to be right.
creationism: n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers.
In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong....
Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to exciting Camden, New Jersy.
Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
For a New idea, an Old book...