Telling Computer Guys That They Need To

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.

I See Professionalism As A Spreading Disease Of The Present-day World, A Sort Of Poly-oligarchy By Which Various Groups (subway Conductors, Social Workers, Bricklayers) Can Bring Things To A Halt If Their Particular Demands Are Not Met. (meanwhile, The Irrelevance Of Each Profession Increases, In Proportion To Its Increasing Rigidity.) Such Lucky Groups Demand More In Each Go-round - But Meantime, The Number Who Are Permanently Unemployed Grows And Grows.

Most People Are Fools, Most Authority Is Malignant, God Does Not Exist, And Everything Is Wrong.

So In My Uncertainty, I Went To Graduate School And There It All Happened.

Regularity Chauvinists Are People Who Insist That You Have Got To Do The Same Thing Every Time, Every Day, Which Drives Some Of Us Nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - We Need A More Positive Term For That. Hummingbird Mind, I Should Think.