[plt-scheme] Re: Programming for non-programmers

Alex Peake wrote:

>Let us add to that the mindset of the "enterprising" (entrepreneur if you like). To assume that all
>progress is made in the work hours and environment is a recipe for, well, the current situation. The
>"enterprising" find time to (as Alan Kay suggests) "invent the future". If you wait for the average
>corporation, which as we all recognize, are populated by average people, then we get average
>results.
>  
>
Exactly.  As Paul Graham is fond of saying, most recently in "What the 
Bubble Got Right" (http://paulgraham.com/bubble.html),  people tend to 
be most productive when their contributions to the enterprises bottom 
line is fairly rewarded.  The larger a company is, the harder it is to 
see how individual contributions impact the bottom line. 

Steve

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"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best 
way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay