Thought for the day: dealing with people

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

When dealing with people (whether friends, family, customers or suppliers), remember: there is an absolute world of difference between “I think that’s rubbish” and “it is rubbish”.

One is a statement of opinion, the other is likely to get people’s backs up. Words and phrasing are important to people.

It’s why naming in computer science is hard.

It’s why people are better than machines.