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The industry we do I think we are well suited to appreciating the devotion you can give to a craft or knowing something well. It's pretty inspiring and also sh
by 0xCMP 9y ago
The industry we do I think we are well suited to appreciating the devotion you can give to a craft or knowing something well.
It's pretty inspiring and also shocking how someone could be so devoted to something for so long and how little it gave him other than what he intrinsically got from it.
We should be thankful that we live in a perfect time for those of us who want to devote ourselves to engineering and computer science can also reap rewards which let us have the freedom to live the lives we want. Just because what we do is useful or hard doesn't mean it needs to be financially fulfilling.
- scop 9y ago"If you don’t know Latin, you know nothing! I had my first experience of Latin forty years ago, and I have not been bored by Latin for ten minutes in these forty years. Latin is one of the greatest things that ever happened in human history." -- Renigald Foster
- emmelaich 9y agoAn uncle of mine was a priest who more or less fluent in English, Latin and Italian. Also Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinean Pidgin English) for that matter from when he was a missionary. He spent quite a lot of time in the Vatican and may well have been one of Foster's students. I sometimes think whether his great talents were wasted as a priest* but stories like this help me think they were not. * there were expectations of you going into the priesthood if you were the eldest son in an Irish Catholic family.
- Bromskloss 9y ago> there were expectations of you going into the priesthood if you were the eldest son in an Irish Catholic family. Doesn't that make for an overabundance of priests?
- emmelaich 9y agoYes and no. Yes, because there were probably priests who shouldn't have been. No, because there's still a lot of people in the world to convert.