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[timelets]

I do not recall any one who thought that the internal combustion engine could ever have more than a limited use. All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the engine could not compete with steam. They never thought that it might carve out a career for itself. That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations.

--- Henry Ford, My life and work.

Limitations determine trade-offs and optimization strategies.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Amazing.
Happening in software all the time, everywhere.

[timelets]

It's remarkably consistent over the centuries and knowledge domains. Remember, we talked about Crazy and Stupid being adjoint functors wrt Future vs Past.