Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by latentdeepspace on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:26AM (#24440338)

I live life by the following words:

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room"

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by sergiosgc on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:49AM (#24440475)

I disagree so much with this popular motto that I have difficulty putting it into words. It reeks of egoism. Please, please replace it with:

"If you are the smartest person in the room, teach until you no longer are."

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by scoutt on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:07AM (#24440979)

It's nice but one cannot always teach people to be smarter. You can distribute knowledge, but that's a different thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by doctor_eval on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:01AM (#24441333)

Funny, I always took it to mean that you’re in a room by yourself.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:12AM (#24443047)

Nah. Teaching doesn't make people smarter. Challenging yourself does.

There's a fundamental divide between those that think the best of us are only here to help the less fortunate. And those that think, the best of us should be out there expanding the frontiers.

Especially since the 'less fortunate' sometimes can be that way by laziness.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by sergiosgc on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:41PM (#24444555)

There is a fundamental divide, but it's not the one you draw. The fundamental divide is between those that view life as a solo race and those that think of it is a group endeavor.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:03PM (#24444800)

And more that those of course. So its not all ego; its a different outlook. We're not all born teachers.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by kittko on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:01AM (#24440552)

Thank you so much for rephrasing that terrible original motto, it always has bothered me as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by narag on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:44AM (#24441227)

It reeks of egoism.

Or sarcasm.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by GoblinSlayer on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:22AM (#24441085)

Damn, this whole world is wrong.

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