From: MultisPostAnnis@aol.com
Date: Sat Mar 12 2005 - 02:30:31 GMT
I'm new to this list. I've read most of ZMM and have started Lila. I was
struck by many passages in ZMM, and ultimately used one as the basis for a
master's thesis hypothesis. The subject matter was software quality, or, more
specifically, end-user determinants of software quality. This ZMM quote:
"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any
other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs
you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”
...was morphed into this hypothesis:
"An end-user's quality rating of a software product will be positively
proportional to the level of tranquility its use produces within the end-user."
More recently, I've used another ZMM quote as the inspiration for the name
of a second home that I own up in Maine, "Lateral Drift" [vrbo.com/42141]:
"...the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding
the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally
for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the
roots of what you already know."
We'll eventually retire there, and I rent it out part of the year in the
meantime.
I thought this audience might be about the only one that might appreciate
these anecdotes.
Bill
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