Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

You guys need to trust in my judgement.  I know what I am doing, and when I don't, I start experimenting until I do.  If the experiments had showed that I should make things simpler, then I would have.  But they didn't.  They kept telling me that there were more and more issues that needed to be dealt with and variables that needed to be accounted for.  So script to deal with and account for them was created, and complexity grew.

It's hard being a perfectionist, especially if we keep adding and re-adding every new value to the work we do as the progress continues for the sake of creating masterpiece. The satisfaction feeling only the creator could feel. But that's why I believe in your work. I do the same in real life.

I'm not trying to create a masterpiece with DMSI.  I'm trying to achieve the goals I set out to achieve in the first place.  What we add, what we change and what we remove always has a good, solid, logical reason for that choice behind it.  Within that I always do the best, most accurate and most precise work I am capable of.  But creating a masterpiece can be the goal after I achieve making it do what I said it would do - if I have the time.  Who knows, maybe that will make it a masterpiece anyway.  That's not for me to decide anyway.