Greatness... and Advantages of Coding!

Another trip to Cribbs Causeway (third in three days!) and another discussion with my friend on topics ranging from coding software to achieving greatness...
We somehow managed to link the two.
Coding is one of the very few 'arcane' arts left. It is directly related to how in the ancient times learned scholars used to spend entire lives pouring over manuscript after manuscript detailing rituals and spells to appease one kind of God or another. In return the God would grant them special favours and perform miracles.
In the modern day, computer programmers are the new scholars and computer the new God.
We have equally thick tomes on the different ways the simple grey box sitting on (or under) your desk can be coaxed and appeased to perform miracles!
Be it downloading your favourite music through illegal (ha ha!) means or chatting to your buddy 6 timezones away (when you should actually be working!).
Indeed to call yourself a 'coder' requires years of diligent worship. Thousands of hours spent slouching over the keyboard staring into the face of the new God waiting for a sign.

So the question remains.. can we achieve greatness through 'coding'?
I think not. Coding gives you the kind of tunnel vision which is helpful when you are looking at a problem from a point of view of finding an absolute solution. It is totally useless when you want to soak in the problem and examine all its aspects. This requires more abstract thinking and cannot be codified.
Ask a good designer how he designs... he will say it is common sense and 'creativity'. In other words this means he has no idea how he designs, he just knows that it involves common sense.

Love!

People say love is blind... love may be blind but I think it uses some alternate sensing technique which goes way beyond what our eyes can see... something like what bats use except much much more penetrating.

Shakespear says:
"Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
"Deny thy father and refuse thy name;"
"Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,"
"And I'll no longer be a Capulet"

- Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 2

Looking at the intensity of the above I realised that the person who is able to control 'love' at the emotional or neural or bio-chemical level, will indeed be a very powerful man. After all doesnt everyone have that one special person in their past who they wish had 'loved' them? Havent we all wished once in our life that we had a 'love potion' (bio-chemical level) or we could 'hypnotize' (neural level) the person into falling in love with us.
And how many of us have tried the emotional approach of trying to, one way or the other, make the person in question fall for us with no success?

The Second Step

This is the second entry... feeling pretty relaxed today...
One of my good friends is here.. and we have been having discussions about the various merits of .NET and Java.
I just wonder if Sun Microsystems and Microsoft work together what the result would be?
HA HA.. total failure I bet... because they say that competition is necessary to drive people to perform.
Plus 'variety is the spice of life...'

The First One!

This is the first post.. and as great men have said much before my time.. "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step"..
so this is the first step..
Now that the first step is taken.. doesnt feel all that special!
The trick is to find something worthwhile to post in the future!