The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog… - Erik Naggum

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The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks – the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.

Erik Naggum

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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