Meaning of an old saying
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Hi, I came across this saying the other day, but don't know the meaning it tries to convey, here it goes: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers". Thanks,
Sounds like the bs that young wannabes come out with . It means that Michaelangelo did not need to be taught, he was just driven to do it. And, it's crap. Every programmer needs to learn, even if, like me, they are 'self taught'. That just means buying books and working hard without a teacher in the room. It's like self taught musicians, it's a crock, no-one is self taught.
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Hi, I came across this saying the other day, but don't know the meaning it tries to convey, here it goes: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers". Thanks,
I'm reading it as something along the lines of this: you can teach someone a hobby, but someone who truly loves said hobby must be taught that they must do others things outside their hobby (in our case, get off the computer ;P ).
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Hi, I came across this saying the other day, but don't know the meaning it tries to convey, here it goes: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers". Thanks,
It's nonsense; I can't even determine how the statements relate to each other. The student must have an aptitude for the subject; otherwise you wind up with a program as misshapen as my sculptures. X|
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It's nonsense; I can't even determine how the statements relate to each other. The student must have an aptitude for the subject; otherwise you wind up with a program as misshapen as my sculptures. X|
mud pies - yah mud pies. I have had a yearning to be a sculptor for decades, even took lessons and tried it a couple of time. I have the ability to make slumpy piles of clay, wriggly clay lines and I can cover an entire room with muck if you give me one of those spinny things. Thankfully my development skills are slightly more attuned to success.
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Hi, I came across this saying the other day, but don't know the meaning it tries to convey, here it goes: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers". Thanks,
Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally, but metaphorically. Obviously Michelangelo needed to learn how to sculpt, HOWEVER, he was so good at it that you might suggest that the only way he wouldn't be able to sculpt if it was actually taught not to... A bit like the throw-away line "I've forgotten more about XYZ than you ever knew". Someone who is so ridiculously good at what they do that it seems that the only way they could suck at it is if they were taught to (suck at it).
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Hi, I came across this saying the other day, but don't know the meaning it tries to convey, here it goes: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers". Thanks,
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I'm reading it as something along the lines of this: you can teach someone a hobby, but someone who truly loves said hobby must be taught that they must do others things outside their hobby (in our case, get off the computer ;P ).
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I would say it means anyone can be taught to do something but not everyone can excel.
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That was my intuitive understanding, too: You can teach everyone to sculpt. However, Michelangelo would break all the rules and right-ways-to-do-things taught to a "hobby sculptor". So to teach Michelangelo to sculpt (the way everyone does), you first have to teach him to not use his own way.
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