Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!ptolemy!eos!shelby!neon!neon!ramani From: ramani@modesty.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? Message-ID: Date: 1 Jul 90 00:15:48 GMT Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Stanford University Department of Computer Science Lines: 32 When trying to come up with new ideas, it is generally a good practice to broaden one's horizons a bit and not be too judgemental. Criticism during the conceptual phase inhibits the creation and free exchange of new ideas. People should be encouraged to submit as any many ideas as they can without fear of being publicly criticized for coming up with "bad ideas" that are unworkable, undesirable or inefficient. In short, no idea is a bad idea. Consider the fact that ideas such as the UNIX operating system and personal computers, just to mention a few, were initially rejected by experts at AT&T, HP, IBM, DEC, Xerox, et. al., all of whom supposedly knew better. The designers of X are highly competent people who are aware of the tradeoffs involved in coming up with an efficient, workable system. They already know enough reasons why they *shouldn't* implement something. It is useful to them and others to know why something *should* be implemented. Ramani "For, dear me, why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, it will turn true again, for so it goes." - Robert Frost -- Ramani Pichumani Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437 Department of Computer Science Fax: (415) 725-7411 Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308 email: ramani@patience.stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94305 USA uunet!patience.stanford.edu!ramani