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Knowledge Is Useless
By Jeremy | January 13, 2010
There are many men who work their whole lives to gain knowledge and become an expert in a field and then waste it away because they never apply their knowledge. For example, consider a man who spent his whole life in the world’s best cooking schools: every day he pored over books, inhaled lectures and devoured all the culinary knowledge that was put before him; he learned everything there is to know about food. Yet, despite being the World’s Czar of Culinary Knowledge, if he never applied his knowledge and actually cooked a meal, then all this gastronomic knowledge would be useless to that man. Just as with cooking, the same thing happens in computer science: learning software patterns and standard practices for software enginineering is great! However, if we never try to put that knowledge into practice and actually use some of the great strategies we have learned, then all of our knowledge is useless.
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