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From: Bill Anderson <brain@edhoof.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/24
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Well, as one who spends copious amounts of time in dream states, I must
wholeheartedly agree. Software engineering may forever be a mixture of
art and science, and if true gains are to made, this is as it should be.
Art and science are intertwined to a much greater extent than most
realize, or care to admit.

Just my 2 cents.

Bill Anderson
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Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> All (or almost all) the really great leaps forward in computer
> technology
> have come not from great, expensive, laboratories, engaged in highly
> directed (commercially orientated) research, but instead from a motley
> collection of scatter-brained individuals who had _imagination_.
> 
> These 'dreamers' may never have been practical or realistic. But they
> invented the science.
> 
> If someone says "what if...?", it is fine to say "nice idea, but not
> today", but at the same we should not get into the habit of 'stepping
> on'
> those who suggest ideas. I don't suppose Robert was trying to give
> this
> impression at all, but I hope nobody wrongly gets this impression. We
> need
> our dreamers.
> 
> Nick.
> (PS: I get a bit poetic this time of night)