On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<[email protected]> wrote:
> the other day I got a call from my daughter 'am at a browsing centre, how to
> get wifi to work?' I said: "am not familiar with OpenSuse, keep pressing 
> things
> till it works'. She did, and it worked. The browsing centre owner was
> impressed: 'Linux is very good, but it needs intelligence to use it. Most
> people are not clever enough to use it'
>

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot
fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what
is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

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