Having inspiration, whether from any ideal or from God, is what makes one burn the midnight oil, and design something out of the ordinary.
It increases not just efficiency but something else harder to define, something that could be said to be beauty. It makes the result stand out as a something special, where all the parts have a purpose and are arranged in just the right way. Read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb to get a better idea of this something:
djb’s programs are some of the greatest works of beauty to be comprehended by the human mind. As with great art, the outline of the code is somehow visually pleasing — there is balance and rhythm and meter that rivals even the best typography. As with great poetry, every character counts — every single one is there because it needs to be. But these programs are not just for being seen or read — like a graceful dancer, they move! And not just as a single dancer either, but a whole choreographed number — processes splitting and moving and recombining at great speeds, around and around again.
But, unlike a dance, this movement has a purpose. They accomplish things that need accomplishing — they find your websites, they ferry your email from place to place. In the most fantastic movies, the routing and sorting of the post office is imagined as a giant endless choreographed dance number.
I think the phrase you're disappointed with means a lot more in Terry's context. I mean, it's the driving force behind the OS in the first place so who knows what he means.
In the interest of working out the idea generating part of my brain, here are some ideas for making money with TempleOS:
1) Make TempleOS the ultimate platform for doing "live preaching" at megachurches. Use it to talk to God directly in front of the faithful on a big projection screen.
2) Use it to take confessions. No network stack ensures privacy.
3) Make interactive Bible teaching games on it. No network stacks will block out temptations of the internet
4) It could be the basis for a spiritual fit bit where one could track one's faithfulness to the Lord on a daily basis. No network connectivity ensures that the information remains between the believer and The Lord.
5) Make a portable alter to a saint and/or the Virgin Mary at the push of a button that the believer can pray to. It could be running in a picture frame in the corner of one's house as an altar to the lord.
6) Possibly allow for virtual burnt offerings, peace offerings and sin offerings In the altar application. It is a temple after all.
7) Use sensor technology to somehow detect sin such as visiting the part of town known to be the dwelling place of harlots (e.g adult entertainment businesses) and pester the believer to confess and ask for forgiveness from god. This could be rolled up into the spiritual fit bit thing mentioned earlier.
8) TempleOS could bring back the old school non internet connected PDA. It could be the holy Palm Pilot platform. With all the sin online and paranoia about NSA spying it would make the perfect gift for one's fundamentalist Christian relatives. I could actually see this selling to religious folks and compulsive gadget collectors if it was priced less than about $50.
I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too.
To try the ICR chatbot
1) http://chat.rizon.net
2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon"
3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.