[FRIAM] Pretty cool

[Roger Critchlow]

> On Dec 26, 2007 10:26 AM, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>
> >  Why are engineering and beautiful design incompatible?  Google, of all
> > folks, ought to know better.  But anyway, I wait breathlessly until
> > February.
> >
>
Someone who bought a Kindle should talk about beautiful design?  Voting with
your wallet?

Actually, I think it's just a matter of sensitivities.  Painters make
superficially ugly pictures that are beautiful within the constraints they
set for themselves; engineers can make thousands of beautiful design
decisions which are invisible unless you crack open the case, review the
code, or look at the profits.

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