Check out what Richard Feynman says about the Nobel Prize (around 24 min mark): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7136440703094429927
Alexey 2001 Honda CBR600F4i (CCS) 2002 Suzuki Bandit 1200S 1992 Kawasaki EX500 http://azinger.blogspot.com http://bsheet.sourceforge.net http://wcollage.sourceforge.net ________________________________ From: Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Kevin Wright <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 4:27:00 AM Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: News from Oracle. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/19/10 10:10 , Kevin Wright wrote: > > Me: ... > > Me: I don't care minimally Nobel prizes. The one for Peace proved to be ridiculous since a lot of years. The one for Literature is heavily influenced by politics (for instance, I've read some newspaper articles mentioning an anti-american prejudice of the literature committee). The scientific ones should be better, but in the end I don't understand the meaning of a self-referential committee who decides who's the better scientist - it's the science that decides. I mean, the Nobel Prize is a hyper-conformist thing in the field (science) that should be the most anti-conformist in the world. And I don't understand how a thing such as the Nobel can be considered as serious when the founder refused to consider Mathematics (that sounds as a science to me) because his wife betrayed him with a mathematics scientist... - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxs6tMACgkQeDweFqgUGxcxLwCgnfnRkivUQ6nKC/MFVfcLrV5i krYAoI+pmiYeZjqfiw6KSEczJT3nH+ZB =TeHF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
