When I got into computers the tech that trained me in my first coop placement in high school told me, on day one, “Anyone who ever tells you they know everything about computers is an idiot.”
Still resonates with me today and I always tell juniors the same.
I needed to find the source to hear the tone of that statement for myself - it’s from an interview from 2022 (link is timestamped):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZZpaB2kDM&t=2284
Loved the initial laughs
(Noting I’m not in a position to judge his claim, but that’s OK as plenty of other commenters are comfortable doing so)
Im pretty confortable saying that anyone that calls himself “the best THING currently alive” is an idiot
Heh, well they are certainly unafraid of being perceived as self-centered!
Better when others are the ones to hype someone up with a high superlative like this guy I found:
Edward Witten
Oh Mr. Musk, why must you do the silly stuff… so many big, expensive distractions (to say the very least)…
When I got into computers the tech that trained me in my first coop placement in high school told me, on day one, “Anyone who ever tells you they know everything about computers is an idiot.”
Still resonates with me today and I always tell juniors the same.
The true stable genius. Such wow
I don’t know about genius, but he sure is a stable guessing from the amount of horseshit in him.