How is being disruptive any indication of smartness? It is the field which enables you to change industry standards, not the people who populate it. If anyone

How is being disruptive any indication of smartness? It is the field which enables you to change industry standards, not the people who populate it. If anyone is well known as being disruptive I would say it was the scientist. Science research has a waaaaay longer and more impactful history of being disruptive to society than anything else in the (recorded) history of mankind. We programmers are a new breed and are still in our infancy. Programming technology is still in its respective dark ages.