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(this post was reblogged from marco)
When you create a regulatory agency, you put together a group of people whose job is to solve some problem. They’re given the power to investigate who’s breaking the law and the authority to punish them. Transparency, on the other hand, simply shifts the work from the government to the average citizen, who has neither the time nor the ability to investigate these questions in any detail, let alone do anything about it. It’s a farce: a way for Congress to look like it has done something on some pressing issue without actually endangering its corporate sponsors.
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(this post was reblogged from marco)
Most people need less done well, not more done poorly.
Brian Christiansen (via marco)
(this post was reblogged from disturbingimages)
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If you can’t understand it, you can’t change it.
Eric Evans
(via blonde-for-hire)Chin wobble. Fights back the urge to cry. Whimper.
(this post was reblogged from undermeyousoquitenew)
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When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right. I think we’re the stupid ones.
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[Computing is] a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan Kay in 1972
