April 2008
5 posts
“Doing what you like is freedom.
Liking what you do is happiness”
– fortune cookie
It appears that Safari 3.1.1 has hosed my Mac Mini. Archive & Install here I come….
“To have a sense of humor is to be strong: to keep one’s sense of humor is...”
– Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters pg 136
What we value
I’ve been re-reading Paul Graham’s Hackers & Painters. This morning I’m reading the essay Mind the Gap and he says (pg. 118):
A 747 pilot doesn’t make 40 times as much as a checkout clerk because he is a warlord who somehow holds her in thrall. His skills are simply much more valuable.
In general, I agree with PG: the skills and training a 747 pilot has does make...
“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language...”
– Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters pg 22