Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people’s stories and trying to make a magazine article.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people’s stories and trying to make a magazine article.
BOB FRANKSTON

People Stories Trying
Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.
BOB FRANKSTON

Debug Download Looking Program Retry
This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic – providing opportunity and not guarantees.
BOB FRANKSTON

Guarantees Important Opportunity
Patents? Disappointed? Don’t think of it that way. Software patents weren’t feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
BOB FRANKSTON

Patent Risk Thinking
Early Apple machines – don’t know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools.
BOB FRANKSTON

Apples Memories Trying

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