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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:42:57 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
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Subject: CM> Psychology of success
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>I often wonder what wouuld have happened if Dennis Ritchie had had the business acumen of Bill Gates.
Then, if in the right place at the right time, he would have *been* Mr. Bill.
Histerically technical brilliance has been a hinderance to success. For instance contrast Edison and DeForest to Tesla and Armstrong (that is if you can find an unbiased account). My observation is that the prime need for "success" is to be a talented promotor/marketteer rather than an inventor. (those without technical talent become politicians). Being in the right place at the right time also helps.
Each of the above have something in common: they became interested in a field that few others were at the time so when the time was right, they were on the crest of the wave. The difference was that the one type seeks knowlege for material gain, the other is only interested the knowlege itself. In the best of all worlds, you have a partnership but the two personalities often eventually clash and the one with all of the stock wins, the one who has just accumulated knowlege loses. Nothing new.
Warmly,
Padgett
http://www.netmind.com/~padgett
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
<PADGETT@HOBBES.ORL.MMC.COM>
Subject: CM> Psychology of success
X-To: jsq@mids.org
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>I often wonder what wouuld have happened if Dennis Ritchie had had the business acumen of Bill Gates.
Then, if in the right place at the right time, he would have *been* Mr. Bill.
Histerically technical brilliance has been a hinderance to success. For instance contrast Edison and DeForest to Tesla and Armstrong (that is if you can find an unbiased account). My observation is that the prime need for "success" is to be a talented promotor/marketteer rather than an inventor. (those without technical talent become politicians). Being in the right place at the right time also helps.
Each of the above have something in common: they became interested in a field that few others were at the time so when the time was right, they were on the crest of the wave. The difference was that the one type seeks knowlege for material gain, the other is only interested the knowlege itself. In the best of all worlds, you have a partnership but the two personalities often eventually clash and the one with all of the stock wins, the one who has just accumulated knowlege loses. Nothing new.
Warmly,
Padgett
http://www.netmind.com/~padgett
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