> "I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act."
> Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
but while that jab illustrates the Everything Is Fine; Nothing Can Be Done mentality in computing very clearly, it's probably unfairly disrespectful to East African people.
> "I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act."
> Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
but while that jab illustrates the Everything Is Fine; Nothing Can Be Done mentality in computing very clearly, it's probably unfairly disrespectful to East African people.