Out of sight, out of mind.
Actually, when we built those bookshelves we had many more books than we had room
for on the shelves that we were preparing. It was clear, even then, that we weren't
going to be able to put all those books on bookshelves and still have room to
live in the house. Numerous boxes of books which we still weren't ready to part
with, got put in the attic. Once they were there, however, we basically stopped
thinking about them as books which we intended to put on shelves, meaning that
intead of thinking that we needed more shelf space for our books, we simply related
to the books in the house as what there was.
Go to: Building with an eye toward the present,
or
Go to: Me and Moore's Law.