Re: Direct conversation

Posted by Russ Abbott on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Direct-conversation-tp3137870p3138288.html

Glen,

That seems so defeatist. When one can't be clear, there may not be anything one can do about it at the time. But it seems to me that the positive arc of science, technology, philosophy, politics, culture, etc. (and I think it has been overall a positive arc) has been driven by the imperative to be as clear as possible as much as possible. Feynman famously said "Science is what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves about the way the world is. " Are you really objecting to that as a goal?  (It certainly won't work as a software development strategy!) I would have thought that this list especially would value clarity.

-- Russ

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> wrote:

A mandated method to be clear as possible as much as possible would be
just as effective and efficient as a mandate to be as vague as possible
as much as possible.  

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