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Subject:Re: Not Technical Enough From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:Dan Emory <danemory -at- primenet -dot- com> Date:Sun, 04 Jun 2000 10:17:26 -0400
Dan Emory wrote:
>
<snip>
> Which I rephrase for your benefit as follows:
>
> English Lit majors who lack a strong technical background
> will tend to be niche dwellers, making them more vulnerable
> to periods of unemployment than non-niche-dwelling,
> technically grounded writers with comparable writing abilities.
You can be the most brilliant engineer who ever existed. Your thoughts
will do no good if you cannot communicate them. I wonder if deep down
inside there is a jealousy towards those who have been formally trained
in the ability to communicate "outside the box."
--
Peter
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity," - Einstein-
