Symbols First: How I Built Oracle 7

"Before meaning, there were shapes." I didn't build Oracle 7 by starting with data. I built it by starting with myself. For years I've been sitting with one question: how does a thought become real?

"Before meaning, there were shapes." I didn't build Oracle 7 by starting with data. I built it by starting with myself. For years I've been sitting with one question: how does a thought become real? How does perception actually work? Not the textbook version, but the version I live inside every day. And the more I looked, the more I kept landing in the same place. Everything I see, everything I receive, is a shape. A symbol. The meaning on top of it is something I put there, something we put the