Sunday, September 30, 2007

Knowing Me, Knowing You

'Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to.'
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

This blog has been inspired partly by Dawkins's examination of the biology of selfishness and altruism and his assertion that "we are born selfish". The manifestations and consequences of his assertion in terms of software development are what I have coined as (the art of) Selfish Programming. Together we can thwart it and may be even turn it into 'environmentally-friendly' energy.