designers of
&gt; our software systems, opprobrious of the rest who believe
&gt; that a more &quot;pragmatic&quot; (read: need to get something done)
&gt; approach are wrongheaded. I've found myself in both camps
&gt; over the years, but have of late desired to spend more of
&gt; my time smelling the umbelliferous opopanax, weaning that
&gt; tendency of mine to wax idealistic, desiring that a world
&gt; out of kilter be changed in my favour. With the beginning
&gt; of a next world war in the incapable hands