From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43ECD9AB.6090108@village.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:21:31 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am' References: <739f50e7ab4d922384f867fd278daccc@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <739f50e7ab4d922384f867fd278daccc@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9bead48-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > the more complex the software, the more support it > needs. so the support organism needs the software complexity as its > reason to exist, or even thrive. the support organism that also has > the propensity to invite in more complexity will get bigger - which in > some corporate structures means more powerful. =20 So we're back to an appreciation for simplicity, which I do think=20 correlates with that elusive thing we call smarts. Hm, given the clutter in my office, what does that say about... never min= d. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e=20 serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people=20 collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s th= e=20 same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= =20 serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a=20 bit obscure. P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)