How true. Reminds me of the movie The Incredibles. He has a problem with schools celebrating mediocrity having a ceremony for going from the 5th to the 6th grade.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 javaposse+ > [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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- 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.
