21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
1:19 p.m.
See, I'm somewhat atypical there... I want a phone
that's good at making phone
calls. I don't want it to do a million other things, most of which I won't
need *ever*, let alone occasionally. I'd rather that all the time and money
that had gone into developing that phone had been spent on making it as easy
to use and as robust as possible - not in adding complexity via additional
features which just get in the way.
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my
telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to
use my telephone" I said that after a frustrating attempt to use a
"feature-rich" telephone sometime around 1990. I'm sure the sentiment
wasn't original, and probably not even the overall phrasing; someone must
have thought of that before me.
- Bjarne Strousstrup