Last updated: 07:00PM 07/10/07
Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know what’s wrong.”
—Anonymous
I am pulling this from the Unix Haters Handbook
I was struck with how this simplistic approach is brought to Segway. In Segway’s case a giant red sad face.