Here's another that I think is very appropriate:
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from
pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air,
creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation
are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable
of realizing grand conceptual structures.
- The Mythical Man-Month
by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Although I'm not sure that "so easy to polish and rework" is
representative of all the coders here... at least not yet! :):)
Mark McArthey ` _ , '
mcarthey@execpc.com - (o)o) -
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mud Admin wrote:
> I saw this at work and it just sorta reminded me of my MUD...
>
> --Ziz, NetShamen
>
> The great successful men of the world have used their
> imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture
> in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there,
> altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building --
> steadily building.
>
> --Robert Collier
>
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