[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Gonz wrote: > > >>>>Some of the most pompous, dumbest, and most ill informed people I >>>>know >>>>have a college education, some of them with advanced degrees. On >>>>the >>>>flip side, some of the warmest, smartest people I know do not. >>> >>>So go buy a camera or lens designed by your warm, smart people >>>without an education. >> >>You would be surprised at how much "stuff" you use was dreamt up by >>those very people, so go live without it. > > > Your logic is flawed. Being able to dream up interesting things is > one thing. Being able to engineer and manufacture them is quite > another.
No, thats exactly what I meant. You dont need an engineering degree to "engineer" or design stuff. I meant dreamt up in a complete way, including getting it to market. I remember working with some programmers in the early 80's that were some of the best programmers in the business, and they learnt the domain knowledge they needed on the fly, ... by reading....they did not have a formal education. > > Godfrey > > -- Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man? - Mitch Hedberg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
