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I consider it a good thing when a person is extremely reasonable. Or extremely thoughtful. Or extremely honest. Or extremely patient. Or extremely gracious. We
by gizmo 15y ago
I consider it a good thing when a person is extremely reasonable. Or extremely thoughtful. Or extremely honest. Or extremely patient. Or extremely gracious.
We don't need balance in all things. A rocket only makes it safely to the moon if the engineers are extremely cautious. Bill Gates is extremely charitable. Einstein was extremely intelligent.
The idea that "extreme X for any X" is bad is some sort of pseudo-wisdom that doesn't even pass the sniff test.
- nodata 15y agoIf you are extremely thoughtful to the point that you never get any work done, then this is also a bad thing.
- gizmo 15y agoAnd if you're so patient that you keep waiting for food indefinitely you'll starve. This is just silly.
- gbog 15y agoOn the other hand, it is wise to be moderately moderate.
- technoslut 15y agoI disagree somewhat. >Bill Gates is extremely charitable. This is following two decades of Bill Gates being extremely selfish. >Einstein was extremely intelligent. This is something different. Einstein was extremely intelligent in some areas but not all of them. It's been said that for anyone to become great at anything that it requires 10,000 hours of practice. This does take dedication and there is nothing wrong with doing what you love. That said, caring too much or being too emotional can affect rationalization.
- drumdance 15y agoPlease. You think Bill Gates made $50 billion by stealing it? Yeah, he was agressive, but not any more so than Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy or Larry Ellison would have been in the same position.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoGates and his lieutenants are guilty of extortion rather than theft. "Nice OEM you got, a pity if something were to … happen to it." That wealth is an enormous market failure that the others were not sociopathic enough to cause.