Every gardener must have had the experience of hearing from some reputable and trustworthy gardener that a certain plant is miffy and uncertain, yet you have it all over the garden. Even more annoying is the comment that a certain plant is foolproof, yet you have utterly failed with it four times at least. The best that any gardener can do is to tell his own experience with a plant. If it grows like a weed he should say so.
—Henry Mitchell,On Gardening
Chapter 6
Data and Information
From a bathing tub
I throw water into the lake -
slight muddiness appears.
—Hekigodo Kawahigashi (1873–1937)
Successful information systems depend on a good understanding of what one wants to track and why. A solution designer for such a system needs to recognize ...
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