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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Intelligence, was: Clause "with and use"
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:54:10 GMT, "Anders Wirzenius"
<anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote:

>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
>news:0mtmqvsker4h2d4p7p16vn970mf02ndpii@4ax.com...
>> 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? ;-)

... close to the probability for an excellent code to be written by a
blind man!

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Dmitry Kazakov
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