20th February 2004, 10:26 PM
Seriously, how do people get to the point where they actually think they can prove themselves right by listing the stuff they own and the things they've accomplished? There's no logic in that! Like one man once said, "Wisdom, even from the mouth of a fool, is still wisdom.", meaning pretty much exactly that. It doesn't matter if someone is Steven Hawking or the retarded kid who ALSO is in a wheel chair but sometimes falls out, if they suddenly spout out a great theory of everything that unites quantum and general relativity physics, and it's correct, then it doesn't really matter how dumb the person was, or even if they have any idea what they just said. The fact that it's RIGHT or WRONG is what matters.
That in mind, it sure takes an ego or something else to say "listen to me! I have an expensive house!". I've read some interesting info on this person, apparently with one failure after another. Don't get me wrong, it would seem he does exactly what Dogbert does, and I respect that, but he made a fatal mistake. He messed around with OUR hobby. We're nerds by trade here. We see through it because we aren't the morons in every other field.
That in mind, it sure takes an ego or something else to say "listen to me! I have an expensive house!". I've read some interesting info on this person, apparently with one failure after another. Don't get me wrong, it would seem he does exactly what Dogbert does, and I respect that, but he made a fatal mistake. He messed around with OUR hobby. We're nerds by trade here. We see through it because we aren't the morons in every other field.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)