Instant Obsolessence
is my business.
(So when do I get used to it?)
[then, on feb. 03:]
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
—Alan Perlis
I discoverd Alan Perlis in Jim Weirich’s excellent blog where he is described as:
the first head of the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department and the first recipient of the Turing Award, [who] recorded some of his accumlated knowledge about programming in a series of one sentence statements. You can read more about his Epigrams here