At 05:33 AM Monday 9/22/2008, Curtis Burisch wrote:
>Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting
>different results.
> -- Albert Einstein
Someone (perhaps on this list) once said that was a pretty good
description of what they did every day in their job as a computer
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that
make me an idiot? that's how i learn...
>>> Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and
>>> if someone is open to learning, they are, IMO, *not* an id
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Curtis Burisch wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>>> i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that make
>>> me an idiot? that's how i learn...
>
>> Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and if
>> someone is o
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>> i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that make
>> me an idiot? that's how i learn...
>Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and if
>someone is open to learning, they are, IMO, *not* an idiot.
Insani
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
> i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that make
> me an idiot? that's how i learn...
Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and if
someone is open to learning, they are, IMO, *not* an idiot.
> > > Yes, it is so sad. Almost as sad as the
> patronizing attitude some folks
> > > exhibit when they are certain that most everybody
> else is an idiot.
> > Yes, that is sad. Especially when combined with the
> idea that all those
> > idiots must be taken care of by those who think they
> have
> > We allow mistakes to be pointed here, too. Otherwise,
> how will those who
> > think they are qualified to impose their will on
> others ever find out that
> > they
> > never will be? Let's make it a rule!
> Criticism is most certainly honored in David Brin's
> writings, which
> implicitly mak
