daihozen

In Poul Anderson's SF story "The Problem of Pain", there is the following quote: The primitive faiths see God or the gods, as power; the higher ones see Him as justice; the highest see Him as love. There is also the quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. The common thread through both of these quotes is that there is a lower and a higher way to think, with some intermediate level too. Over my 32-year IT career, I have come across three ways by which people tend to understand systems, and I would express my findings in an analogous manner: The shallowest understanding of systems comes from a study of user interfaces; an intermediate level of understanding comes from a study of processes; the deepest level of understanding comes from a study of data. Let me elaborate. There are many people who work in the IT industry, and not all of them have undergone rigorous study or qualification in IT