Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwatf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!trwatf!root From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intelligence) Message-ID: <1030@trwatf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:33:43 EDT Article-I.D.: trwatf.1030 Posted: Fri Jul 12 00:33:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:38:57 EDT References: <1476@utah-gr.UUCP><542@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.singles:7717 net.social:808 In article <542@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > > As an example of the way NOT to show off, I remember sitting at a dinner, > where sitting across from me was a humanities professor, and to my right, > an computer-science senior. The professor asked a simple question, > "Why are there so many computer languages?" The CS student immediately > began core-dumping his brain, vomiting up gibberish about the difference > between Basic and Fortran, and throwing up words such as link, pointer, > queue, pop, push, subroutine. The professor, an intelligent man, was > lost from the very first sentence. Clearly, if anyone was ever deserving > of a bloody nose, it was this student. > > I guess what it comes down to is this: Understanding things and ideas > will not get you very far unless you also understand people. > > Frank Silbermann BRAVO! Couldn't agree with you more! There are so many technically competent people in the world who are also so socially inept, they need only open their mouths to condemn what was once a socially pleasent evening to the inner circle of hacker's hell. Social success is more than just smiling and saying the right things at a party, though. It means perception and awareness of others as well as being able to communicate just the right amount of information in an interesting way. It's almost a science in itself and it's also something you can't suplant with Netnews! -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "Money for you from the Buddah"