A Technologist Manifesto
Published on Thursday, February 16 2006
Lex I: Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare. — in other words, a user at rest would rather stay at rest than do extra work.
This is from one of the most hilarious pieces about the IT world I’ve read, yet It’s one of the most true.
It tells us that technologists are sometimes too much in love with thier technology at the risk of considering the users an hurdle on the road to the product. They are not, without the users there whould be no need for the tools we develop.
disclosure: I worked as the main technologist on an ERP project…