[48168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Certification or College degrees?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Thu May 23 12:03:53 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:02:17 -0400
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20020523003705.2B0825DE1C@segue.merit.edu>; from faust@grift.com on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:37:33PM -0700
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> Degrees are, in essence, a certificate that you are capable of learning
> things by rote and regurgitating them later, possibly applying a small
> amount of thought (but not too much).
I can completely attest to that. I've got a degree in theoretical
astrophysics and did graduate work in Quantum Physics. If you ever try
to apply more than a small amount of thinking to Quantum Mechanics,
you'll explode faster than an electron and a positron having sex!
Now, you may be asking - "How does this relate to NANOG" or "How does Eric's
understanding of how Quantum Mechanics impacted the early Universe relate
to his ability to run or design a network"? It doesn't, but neither does
this thread....
Just my $0.02. Flame on.
Eric :)
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't
understand quantum mechanics."
-- Richard Feynman:
