In The Early Days Of The Software

The Best Value For Money In Cooking Equipment, In My Mind, Is First A Digital Scale And Digital Thermometer. They're Both About $20. They Help You Cook So Much More Accurately That They're Both Enormously Valuable.

Words Can Hurt You. In The Larger World, It Frames How People Think About You, And It Can Hurt You In Lots Of Little, Subtle Ways.

Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.

The Next Purchase Is Too Little Too Late. The Apple Of The Past Was An Innovative Company That Used Software And Hardware Technology Together To Redefine The Way People Experienced Computing. That Apple Is Already Dead. Very Adroit Moves Might Be Able To Save The Brand Name. A Company With The Letters A-p-p-l-e In Its Name Might Survive, But It Won't Be The Apple Of Yore.

Suppose That 'unsolved Mysteries' Called You With News Of A Long-lost Identical Twin. Would That Suddenly Make You Less Of A Person, Less Of An Individual? It Is Hard To See How. So, Why Would A Clone Be Different? Your Clone Would Be Raised In A Different Era By Different People - Like The Lost Identical Twin, Only Younger Than You.