Comments on: math, architecture, economics, morality http://tjic.com/?p=8775 Rope! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:23:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tjic http://tjic.com/?p=8775&cpage=1#comment-136392 tjic Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:23:04 +0000 http://tjic.com/?p=8775#comment-136392 Building large organizations that work is <i>hard</i>. We monkeys still haven't really mastered it. Add to that the fact that math and engineering are also recent innovations, and it's not surprising that the intersection of two hard problems is ... a hard problem. Building large organizations that work is hard.

We monkeys still haven’t really mastered it.

Add to that the fact that math and engineering are also recent innovations, and it’s not surprising that the intersection of two hard problems is … a hard problem.

]]> By: miriam http://tjic.com/?p=8775&cpage=1#comment-136391 miriam Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:19:23 +0000 http://tjic.com/?p=8775#comment-136391 Wow. I love the linked series of changes in the original design, each made by people unaware of the larger implications... Wow.
I love the linked series of changes in the original design, each made by people unaware of the larger implications…

]]> By: dearieme http://tjic.com/?p=8775&cpage=1#comment-136379 dearieme Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:00:33 +0000 http://tjic.com/?p=8775#comment-136379 Marvellous. One nit picked: "It produced heroes, but no villains; everyone connected with the repairs behaved in exemplary fashion" - except the anonymous Trade Union man. Marvellous. One nit picked: “It produced heroes, but no villains; everyone connected with the repairs behaved in exemplary fashion” – except the anonymous Trade Union man.

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