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   Stefan Ram to danny burstein   
   Re: Garfield: Predicting the future   
   16 Jan 26 22:09:09   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   danny burstein  wrote or quoted:   
   >That phrase is also attributed to Yogi Berra of the NY Yankees.   
      
     (Not directly responding to the quoted material but to the   
     "Garfield" in the subject.) Joel Spolsky uses Garfield, by   
     the way, to illustrate mediocre programmers.   
      
   |The real trouble with using a lot of mediocre programmers   
   |instead of a couple of good ones is that no matter how long   
   |they work, they never produce something as good as what the   
   |great programmers can produce.   
   |   
   |Five Antonio Salieris won't produce Mozart's Requiem. Ever.   
   |Not if they work for 100 years.   
   |   
   |Five Jim Davises - creator of that unfunny cartoon cat,   
   |where 20% of the jokes are about how Monday sucks and the   
   |rest are about how much the cat likes lasagna (and those are   
   |the punchlines!) . . . five Jim Davises could spend the rest   
   |of their lives writing comedy and never, ever produce the   
   |"Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld.   
   |   
   Joel Spolsky (2005).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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