The Little Prince

Why is The Little Prince represented in the logo of this page?

For me this answer is quite easy: This small childbook by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry is the answer to most of our everyday-life, philosophical and technichal questions.

 

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
-- Antoine de Saint- Exupéry ("The Little Prince" Chapter 1)

 

You may wonder, which technical answers can be found in this book.

The point is that we always seek for the most logical answers, instead of the most obviouse ones. If we'd try to see the world and our problems with the eyes of a child, we'd see more solutions, than the one logical way.


When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.
-- Antoine de Saint- Exupéry ("The Little Prince" Chapter 5)

 

Example for a technical answer

When you, for example, try to make your PHP website faster, it is logical for most of us to get a better server, to use image sprites and so on.

A child, who want to outreach the distance of its ball-kick, would never think of mowing the grass or buying a new ball. So, our soloution for the PHP website is often a work-around.

The less but still obviouse solutions would be: Checking your source for performance-killers or sliming your source. The most obviouse soloution would be: Change form PHP, a "Hypertext Prosessing" language, to, for example Python, a real programming language...

 

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint- Exupéry ("The Little Prince" Chapter 21) 

 

Example for a philosophic anser

 

Whenever we go into a country, using weapons, to force the people to get our "good values", we get responsible for all of them. After all Mr Bush did to Iraq I hope the US will not forget that:

 

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
  -- Antoine de Saint- Exupéry ("The Little Prince" Chapter 21)

 

 

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