Normally,
one would conform and accept that things have to be done in a particular way.
Of course, normal people don’t include computer scientists or rather scientists
in general. These are the people who don’t think it’s lazy to let a machine do
chores for you while you do better things with your life. They are the people
who see opportunity in what appears to be inconveniences. When you think all
the major inventions were born out of lazy motives.
Books
will record that Linus Torvalds created the kernel of the Linux Operating System
in order to create a first-class operating system, but the real reason he did
it is rather interesting. It was simply Finland winter! He just didn’t want to
have to get up to use University computers; he wanted to connect to these
computers from the comfort of his bed. He thus made an inexpensive operating
system for his PC.
In
a similar fashion, it will go down to history that Gauri Nanda made clocky because she was an MIT genius. Well,
the real reason is because she too loves her sleep. She made an alarm clock that
will not only make noise but also make you play hide and seek until you are
wide awake; a simple solution for a big problem.
The
general trend is apparent, while the principle of others is “Discipline
yourself and conform to the current system”, scientists principle is “Don’t fight
it, code it”. That’s it folks, I have uncovered the mystery of the most weird
people on this planet. The father of invention Thomas Edison
was once quoted “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is
because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.” It is true that opportunity is normally hidden in what appears to be rules or
work or anything between those lines. It
takes a whole lot of courage and incentive to grab it.
Society has a general trend to
condone laziness and lack of discipline. Although that’s important, it is also
important not to hamper creativity. Innovation and creativity spans out of a
very simple mindset, that is, whatever
is bothering you, Don’t fight it, code IT!
