15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
6:47 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 05:12:26PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Noel,
I consider myself reasonably smart but the least smart amongst the team
I lead. As a result, clever complicated stuff rarely got accepted because
it was too clever for me to understand.
So smart people can choose to be "dumb" and that's what I did and
that's
why I can still (mostly) debug the product.
--lm
I've often tried to understand why some
people create these incredibly
complicated systems. (Looking at the voluminous LISP Machine manual set from
Symbolics particularly caused this train of thought...) I think it's because
they are too smart - they can remember all that stuff.
But smart people don't have to create complex stuff, see Unix. :-)