Portrait of the entrepreneur as a Simpson

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On programming as both sculpture and stonemasonry

“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.” —Michelangelo

We programmers and engineers aren't so lucky as to find free-standing virtual marble blocks ready for the sculpting. We must first build up the marble block itself until it shows sufficient promise and only then start chipping away to reveal our product's true form.

iBose again

A shout out to Rob Griffiths over at Macworld's iPhone Central for closing my iPhone + Bose open loop and tuning up my productivity with a simple-yet-not-less-fabulous feat of headphone surgery.