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Subject:RE: You Don't Need to Know How From:"David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:06:13 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From Peter:
> I notice that Andrew was careful to differentiate How something works,
> from Why something works.
This is an important distinction. I've written about some areas of cutting
edge research where NOBODY knows WHY it works. They're just hoping they
actually understand HOW it works.
In cases like the HOW is what matters, and usually all that readers expect
at first. Hopefully (but not always) the WHY will come later.
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