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To: zonkie who wrote (130629)3/7/2001 8:00:14 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
zonkie, in life one talks the talk and one walks the walk. Engineering is the walk of the systematic solving of problems. I know that all really important knowledge is learned and not taught. Information can be taught but wisdom is learned by careful study and thought. To those who can think and understand at some level the work I've done, I've given a key, a benchmark, a measure into understanding more levels of thought in the words I've said. Any who have solved problems by their own hand understand the world at a different and far more common sense level.
The wisdom to know what can and should be done is learned by doing.

Solving some engineering problems is in the olympic class of difficult problems. I have been fortunate to be given the opportunity to solve some really complex problems. I leaned what I needed to know to solve. My reference to my PASTWORK is evidence of who I am. I also know enginees don't know all the answers but good engineers know how to find the best answer. I also know that there are other lines of work that challenge the intellect, but I know engineering.

So simply I state who I am and what I've done as what one has learned in life by solving problems greatly impacts how and why one thinks a certain way. I've many times dealt with folks who never solved very deep problems and found their thought processes were very shallow. It's not a quid pro quo but it is a very reliable indicator. Life in America is for the most part very easy and I've found many with lazy vacant liberal minds.

But the most important thing I've learned is to listen carefully and dissect on several level whatever anyone says. Then if I'm in the mood I have fun.

I wear a White Hat.

tom watson tosiwmee
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