Bret Victor 的个人网站最近更新了,看到网站的背景图片才理解他多年来 twitter 头像的含义。堂吉柯德攻击的那个风车。理想主义心中的敌人,他要攻克的那个怪物。
经常看到他叙说的一段话,他追求的 seeing system。 Interface matters to me more than anything else, and it always has. I just never realized that. I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus must be on the "using", not the "thing". Now that I'm looking through the right end of the binoculars, I can see a lot more clearly, and there are projects and possibilities that genuinely interest me deeply.