Re: not enough real programmers?

[bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au]

Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> writes:

>As a pilot I once knew taking a check ride one told the CFIs when asked
>how wide something on the airplane was: "If you want me to build a box
>for the damn thing, I'll get the aircraft handbook".

>Now if the HR and even the management types I was meeting understood
>this :-/.

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.

Bernie
-- 
That the King can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle
    of the English constitution
William Blackstone
English jurist 1723-80