~ creating something from nothing is hard, modifying something is easy

Such a design move is also right out of the Xerox PARC GUI design playbook, which notes that “creating something out of nothing is a difficult task . . . it is easier to modify an existing document or program than to write it originally.”

📖 Building SimCity — How to Put the World in a Machine

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