TITLE: The Path to Nothing AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford DATE: April 29, 2019 2:42 PM DESC: ----- BODY: Dick Gabriel writes, in Lessons From The Science of Nothing At All:
Nevertheless, the spreadsheet was something never seen before. A chart indicating the 64 greatest events in accounting and business history contains VisiCalc.
This reminds me of a line from The Tao of Pooh:
Take the path to Nothing, and go Nowhere until you reach it.
A lot of research is like this, but even more so in computer science, where the things we produce are generally made out of nothing. Often, like VisiCalc, they aren't really like anything we've ever seen or used before either. -----