Laura's List - was Re: new years resolutions

[Nomad]

On 7 Jan 2003 04:45:11 -0800, mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) wrote:

>Ben Leslie <benno at sesgroup.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1041872080.15063.python-list at python.org>...
>> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> > 
>> > 1. preoccupation with cleverness as opposed to wisdom
>> 
>> Care to expand on this point? I don't quite get what you mean.
>> 
>
>My interpretation: you are wise when you are clever enough that you 
>don't need to show it. IOW, if you can, you choose the simple way over
>the difficult way. I am sure people on c.l.py would say that
>Perl is clever, whereas Python is wise.
>
>Hoping having correcly channeled Laura,

Of course, there is always:

"cleverness is when you know everything,

wisdom is when you know enough to know you don't know everything"


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Nomad

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