The Power of Incremental Work
Quite a while ago, I wrote a review of The New Turing Omnibus. A very clever book whose double entendre title reinforced the wit with which the subject matter was to be handled. In short, a very fun book that covers a lot of Computer Science topics. What’s interesting though is how one tiny passage in the foreword changed my outlook on something important. Here it is: Sometime during my childhood I encountered the traditional image of a bird that erodes a mountain by taking a single stone from it every year.