Messages in this thread |  | | From | "J. Dow" <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb | Date | Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:15:31 -0700 |
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From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com> > Yes, using a power-drill and other tools makes a lot of carpentry easier. > To the point that a lot of carpenters don't even use their hands much any > more. Almost all the "carpentry" today is 99% automated, and sure, it > works wonderfuly - especially as you in carpentry cannot do it any other > way if you want to mass-produce stuff. > > But take a moment to look at it the other way. > > If you want to find the true carpenters today, what do you do? Not just "a > carpenter". But THE carpenter. > > I'm saying that maybe you put up a carpentry shop where everything is > lovingly hand-crafted and tools are not considered to be the most > important part - or even necessarily good. And yes, some people > (carpenters in every sense of the word) will be frustrated. They can't use > the power-lathe that they are used to. It doesn't suit them. They _know_ > that they are missing something. > > But in the end, maybe the rule to only use hand power makes sense. Not > because hand-power is _better_. But because it brings in the kind of > people who love to work with their hands, who love to _feel_ the wood with > their fingers, and because of that their holes are not always perfectly > aligned, not always at the same place. The kind of carpenter that looks at > the grain of the wood, and allows the grain of the wood to help form the > finished product. > > The kind of carpenter who, in a word, is more than _just_ a carpenter. > > [ Insert a silent minute to contemplate the beaty of the world here. ]
Properly contemplated and I wonder at the hypocrisy of using a compiler or an assembler instead of carefully hand crafted bits on a blank disk.
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