I'm not a programmer but I think anyone of a geek persuasion should read Buckminster Fuller. Critical Path is essential, but pretty much any of his books are exceptional mind food, especially Synergetics.
Others would include Benoit Mandelbrot - The Fractal Geometry of Nature; any of Albert Einstein's writings; Bart Kosko's books on Fuzzy Logic; any Feynman book; John C Lilly - The Centre of The Cyclone...man this could go on and on!!:-)
There's no face!! It's a faceless ball with horns!!
No face = no character.
This would never have come out of Japan. Where's the cute daemon face?
Ah shit.
Listening to Charlie Parker on the saxophone, you can hear the influence of earlier forms of jazz on his playing, and his technical knowledge of scales and other music-theoretic disciplines, much the same as a music professor. But, the difference lies in his ability to 'let go' of traditional moves and use his technical skills to invest fluency in apparently 'new' ways of playing his instrument. The other side of the coin is that anyone can pick up a sax and create noise. Music usually lies within a framework, however loose. Computing is almost completely built on frameworks. Hence, script kiddies who simulate music.
I think the hacker mind is similar to the jazz musician - part technical knowledge, and part playfulness. Wanting to see what happens if...and also having the confidence to not feel like a failure if a single attempt fails. Try, try, and try again.
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I'm not a programmer but I think anyone of a geek persuasion should read Buckminster Fuller. Critical Path is essential, but pretty much any of his books are exceptional mind food, especially Synergetics. Others would include Benoit Mandelbrot - The Fractal Geometry of Nature; any of Albert Einstein's writings; Bart Kosko's books on Fuzzy Logic; any Feynman book; John C Lilly - The Centre of The Cyclone...man this could go on and on!! :-)
There's no face!! It's a faceless ball with horns!! No face = no character. This would never have come out of Japan. Where's the cute daemon face? Ah shit.
...for a similar interview with Miyazaki-san. Very interesting.
Listening to Charlie Parker on the saxophone, you can hear the influence of earlier forms of jazz on his playing, and his technical knowledge of scales and other music-theoretic disciplines, much the same as a music professor. But, the difference lies in his ability to 'let go' of traditional moves and use his technical skills to invest fluency in apparently 'new' ways of playing his instrument. The other side of the coin is that anyone can pick up a sax and create noise. Music usually lies within a framework, however loose. Computing is almost completely built on frameworks. Hence, script kiddies who simulate music.
I think the hacker mind is similar to the jazz musician - part technical knowledge, and part playfulness. Wanting to see what happens if...and also having the confidence to not feel like a failure if a single attempt fails. Try, try, and try again.