on GUIs and such things

[Kragen Sitaker]

I just discovered that I had this quote, which expresses what I was
trying to express on eros-arch this week much better and in far fewer
words:

  When you go to achieve some new great thing, it is really helpful to
    only try to achieve *one* amazing thing at a time.  If you try to
    do two or three, then the product of narrow probabilities bites you
    in the ass, and your chances of success dwindle to insignificance.

        -- Crispin Cowan, in <384B5F32.10FDAD89@cse.ogi.edu>, around
           1999-12-09, on the Free Software Business list

-- 
<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
The Internet stock bubble didn't burst on 1999-11-08.  Hurrah!
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/bubble.html>
The power didn't go out on 2000-01-01 either.  :)