[extropy-chat] Scientists and engineers must work within the system

Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com
Mon Nov 22 02:01:04 UTC 2004


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> This effectively says that scientists and engineers must play politics
> instead of doing science and engineering.  If so then this is a symptom
> of an incredibly broken system that needs to be repaired as quickly as
> possible.   Simply playing the broken system may do little more than
> legitimize the brokenness and leave one's own work undone.

However, the only way of fixing the system is to play
politics.  Oh, the irony...

Rik
-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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