On 03 Nov 2013, at 18:42, James Ashley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Alan Kay once said something along the lines of "The best way to >>> predict the future is to create it." >>> >> >> I always joke that he forgot “The only way to have a future is to finish >> something” ;-) >> >> Marcus > > Nice. I may steal that corollary and blog about it someday. — James explanation: “something” means really that: You do not need to “reinvent everything” to *have* a future. You finish something (trivial, boring), and than you use that to build on top. Yes, it will be trivial. But the, in the end tragic, fact is that anything you can *do* in the sense of really making in real will be trivial. Else you could not do it. If you wait for that amazing thing that will be so great that it even amazes you yourself who made it real: Sorry, this will never happen. *Everything* you can make real will be trivial and boring by definition. “Now I know how to do it”. Yes!, so finish, and than build on top. Marcus
