Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
“It is too early to tell whether the Internet’s effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour.… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
