Re: not enough real programmers?

[jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton)]

bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au writes:

>You could always quote Einstein back at them.... Allegedly, the great man
>was once asked what the speed of sound in air was, and answered along
>the lines of "I don't memorize stuff I can look up in any encyclopedia".
>Or something to that effect --- the only time I ever saw this quote it
>was in a German issue of "Reader's Digest", and there was no telling 
>how many times it had been bounced back and forth between German and English.

The way I heard this story (if it's the same story) was that he was asked
his own phone number, and made a similar reply.

Completely off topic:

At a dance I once saw a guy ask a girl for her phone number, and she told
him "it's in the phone book".  He then asked for her last name.  She said
"that's there too".


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