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diff --git a/log/2013-10-09-keep-fun-in-computing.org b/log/2013-10-09-keep-fun-in-computing.org new file mode 100755 index 0000000..8a4c54c --- /dev/null +++ b/log/2013-10-09-keep-fun-in-computing.org @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: keep fun in computing +date: 2013-10-09 +layout: post +category: log +--- + +Taken from [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp][Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs]]: + +#+BEGIN_QUOTE +"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer +science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful +lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now +and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints +seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for +the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't +think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, +setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I +hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. +Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if +you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. +What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel +as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's +in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to +see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that +you can make it more.” +#+END_QUOTE + +/Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)/ + +Dear friends, let's keep having fun. |