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Subject:Re: The Problem with STC From:Elizabeth Ross <beth -at- vcubed -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:26:27 -0500
On 12/12/00 11:51 AM, David Berg wrote:
>> I think it was Feynman who said: If you really understand
>> something, you can
>> explain it to a college freshman.
Is it this one? <g,d,r>
Simpson¹s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER: 3122
AUTHOR: Richard P Feynman, 1965 Nobel laureate in physics
QUOTATION: If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn¹t have
been worth the Nobel Prize.
ATTRIBUTION: People 22 Jul 85
I like the one attributed to Einstein:
"If you can't explain it to an 8-year-old, you don't understand it"--Albert
Einstein
(Though it appears the Michael Cowpland quoted incorrectly and garbled
Vonnegut's words. <sigh>)
(P.S. - I really like the Buckminster Fuller tale.)
--
Elizabeth Ross
Senior Technical Writer, V3 Semiconductor Corp.
mailto: beth -at- vcubed -dot- com http://www.vcubed.com
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
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