Verbalism Personified

After two days of ripping, tossing and burning, Otterman has completed most of the move to his new office. And among the casualties were the carcasses of four iterations of Mac OS X. Being an avid Macintosh user, they were contributed to line the shelves as trophies for a path taken away from the mainstream and the mundane.

Writing software can be fun. Endless hours of coding, debugging, security patching and public-beta distributed testing. This is not to belittle the efforts of programmers and their hardware counterparts, who demonstrate ingenuity, attention to detail and creativity, but no matter how intuitive a graphic user interface, secure and robust an operating system, progress will make obsolete everything that comes before it.

Reading the facts and figures printed on the boxes is like history printed on cereal boxes. Yesterday's technology is nothing but a pile of junk.