What does Python fix?
Martijn Faassen
m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Sat Jan 19 10:19:16 EST 2002
François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> [Mike C. Fletcher]
>> The greatest minds of all time have almost invariably failed to follow
>> the cultural norms of their time.
> Maybe. But escaping norms is surely no guarantee of a great mind! :-)
[snip]
It's really just an application of Bozo the Clown principle:
"Hah! You laugh at me, but they laughed at [very famous person people
might or might not have laughed at] too!"
"But they also laughed at Bozo the clown."
Looks like it was Carl Sagan with this particular expression of this
important principle. :)
Regards,
Martijn
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