“At MacHack, when most of the original team was there and
Andy told this story, Jef Raskin spoke up to say that he
had told Steve about round rectangles being everywhere,
and that's what got Steve obsessed about them.
But what I found interesting was something Bill Atkinson
said about creating the RoundRect routines. He said they
turned out to be a lot easier to create than he thought
they would be. I can't tell you how many times I've
over-estimated something easy. I think it's something
inherent in computer work.”
I've had that happen a lot. Something I thought would be very hard turned out to be fairly easy. And vice versa. Happened more when I was younger though. I think with time and experience one's prediction ability evens out a bit.