Quote: Jef Raskin on Exploding Shoes and Computers
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
- Jef Raskin, computer scientist (started the Macintosh project for Apple)
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I don't put computers on my feet. I'm pretty sure that's his problem.
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My computer has never exploded.
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Maybe yours works flawlessly, I'm about to reinstall windows because it's decided to eat itself.
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I don't really get it.
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Computers perform millions of operations per second. Flawlessly. For (let's say) days. That's an astonishingly high level quality of performance.
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