Software Sucks Because Users Demand It To.

I Wanted To Figure Out How Long To Cook Things. I Did Some Experiments And Then Wrote A Program Using Mathematica To Model How Heat Is Transferred Through Food.

The Magic Words 'on The Internet,' If Inserted Into Nearly Any Sentence, Seem To Protect It From Normal Critical Scrutiny.

Technological 'revolutions' Don't Really Overthrow Anything - They Simply Append A New And Dynamic Market To That Which Went Before.

In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of Culture, People Disagree On The Worth Of Competing Ideas. There Is No Equivalent To The Scientific Method That Can Determine In A Robust Way Which Ideas Match The Real World, And Which Ones Can Be Ruled Out. So Conflicting Ideologies Persist Indefinitely.

If People Don't Find What You Are Doing Threatening, Then It Is Probably Not Very Important.