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From: "Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>
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"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