Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodil…

- John Naughton

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as…

- John Naughton

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. …

- John Naughton

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themse…

- John Naughton

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit

- John Naughton

Nostalgia isn't a business model

- John Naughton

Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly g…

- John Naughton