Re: MD Has Pirsig created a new disguise for SOM ?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 20:20:47 GMT


Hi Soj:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
> | the tuning fork within us that hums
> when we stumble on something
> | beautiful.
>
> I like that expression!!

Credit goes to David Gelernter, Yale professor of computer science
and victim of the Unabomber, from his book, "Machine Beauty."

Another excerpt:

When something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of
rightness about it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the
single most important element of design.

To which I would add . . . and of everything else.

Gelernter brings the MOQ to hi-tech.

Platt

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