Intentional Software
Back in 2002 I thought of “Intentional Software” as a company name. It was supposed to imply that we wouldn’t be creating haphazardly designed products. But then again, I’d only been coding for a year or two at the time, which doesn’t seem like enough time to be doing anything other than haphazard development.
All of that is beside the point, because Charles Simonyi came along a few years later and started a company of the same name. He was born well before me so he had a killer head-start. Plus, as the originator of “hungarian notation”, he knew how to not program all willy-nilly.
My ideas for a company name progressed, especially once I stopped using the space bar. Out came “Greaterscope” as a possibility. The encapsulation of optimistic, forward-looking, expansive … a chord was struck. Or rather, a saw was wobbled to make a sound. But don’t worry, the saw’s teeth are clean. (Yeah, that was a stretch, but I had to reference Scope mouthwash somewhere, since you probably thought of it upon seeing our company name).