Re: [Haskell-cafe] the problem of design by negation

On 26 May 2009, at 12:54 pm, wrote:

Conal is definitely on to something here. I've noticed that the best designers have this weird personality quirk that allows them to put all of their effort into pushing an idea, and then instantly back down and revise the moment that it's been shown that the idea won't work.

I have one of Brian Marick's (www.exampler.com) stickers on my door. It reads to be less wrong than yesterday Two quotes I often give my students: Brethren, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, consider it _possible_ that you _may_ be wrong. Oliver Cromwell Fear most of all to _remain_ in error. Me, deliberately misquoting Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates. I changed 'be' to 'remain'.