From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bakul Shah Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.8\)) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 23:12:50 -0700 References: <46E7EE42925499BF1B9558D2423340AA@eigenstate.org> <20190403132308.40f40cabe3c1388582669299@eigenstate.org> <20190403182228.09444137cdcf315f19033528@eigenstate.org> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements. Topicbox-Message-UUID: f978e23c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only form. Da Vinci on the other hand.... > On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > > The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal tastes > and habits and a GUI multi-dimensionally more so. It's like a marble > slab that needs a Michelangelo to turn it into an image. > > We've had one Michelangelo and a Rodin and only a few Greek sculptors > in the past, what, three thousand years? Do we really think that a > near infinite number of monkeys is now going to solve that problem, > specially when the marble slab is undergoing its own metamorphosis > underfoot? > > Good luck! > > Lucio. >