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From: ed@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Ed Schlotzhauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 370 conventions (was Re: Complex Instructions)
Message-ID: <270001@hpmtlx.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 18:06:41 GMT
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>     "Qualified professional" is a term defined by other qualified
>professionals.

There is no amount of training or degrees or experience that one person
may have that makes another person "unqualified" to attempt whatever he
wants to try.  Most of the major innovations in history have come from
someone who was too ignorant to realize that what he was attempting
was impossible or impractical.  See some of Tom Peters' books on R&D 
processes and how things *really* happen.

Don't let anyone tell you that you are unqualified to do something or even 
have an opinion! Surprise them -- go do it!

Note: I am speaking of the rather safe and isolated world of computers,
software, and architecture, not brain surgery. "Kids, don't try this at home."

Ed Schlotzhauer "My own opinions, of course.  Who else would want them?"