From: "Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>
Subject: Re: Intelligence, was: Clause "with and use"
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:54:10 GMT
Date: 2003-11-07T11:54:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CJLqb.179$cO3.111@read3.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0mtmqvsker4h2d4p7p16vn970mf02ndpii@4ax.com
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:07:44 GMT, "Anders Wirzenius"
> <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote:
> >Wasn�t Vincent Van Gogh mentally ill? But he made lovely paintings!
>
> Painting does not require the mental power which people usually
called
> idiots lack. An idiot could well be a genial painter or writer. I
> would say that a truly great one also should be, to some extent.
>
> >Wasn't Beethoven deaf when he wrote his ninth symphony?
>
> As for this particular case, he wasn't an idiot!
>
> >Why cannot an idiot write excellent code?
>
> Put it otherwise. What is the probability that a piece of an
excellent
> code was written by an idiot?
... then put it back one step. What is the probability that an
excellent piece of music is composed by a deaf person? ;-)
Anders
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-06 8:39 Clause "with and use" christoph.grein
2003-11-07 8:07 ` Intelligence, was: " Anders Wirzenius
2003-11-07 10:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-07 11:54 ` Anders Wirzenius [this message]
2003-11-07 13:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-07 15:57 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-11-07 16:18 ` Stephane Richard
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