6 April 2005
Dabblers and Blowhards
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: General .
Paul Graham in his article titled Hackers and Painters said:
“[O]f all the different types of people I’ve known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. What hackers and painters have in common is that they’re both makers.”
IdleWords takes it down nicely!
To which I’d add, what hackers and painters don’t have in common is everything else. The fatuousness of the parallel becomes obvious if you think for five seconds about what computer programmers and painters actually do.
- Computer programmers cause a machine to perform a sequence of transformations on electronically stored data.
- Painters apply colored goo to cloth using animal hairs tied to a stick.