One Of The Ugly Secrets

Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.

Economists Want Their Discipline To Be A Science, And They Have Nailed Down A Few Precepts, But Many Of Their Debates Are Still Clouded By Ideology.

One Of The Ugly Secrets Of The Renewable-energy Industry Is That Its Products Make No Economic Sense Unless They Are Highly Subsidized.

I've Been On A Team That Won The World Championship Of Barbecue. But Barbecue's Interesting, Because It's One Of These Cult Foods Like Chili, Or Bouillabaisse. Various Parts Of The World Will Have A Cult Food That People Get Enormously Attached To - There's Tremendous Traditions; There's Secrecy.

In The Early Days Of The Software Industry, People Cared About Copyright And Didn't Give A Damn About Patents - They Copied Each Other Willy-nilly.