• nonentity
    43·
    6 hours ago

    He truly is an idiot’s concept of a genius.

    No one who anctually understands Unix or IP networking would ever craft that as an explanation for this concept.

    That said, it’s an excellent explanation of how a lobotomy helped him embrace his true self.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 hours ago

      Now I want to see:

      • a genius’es concept of an idiot
      • an idiot’s concept of an idiot
      • a genius’es concept of a genius
      • overload@sopuli.xyz
        8·
        3 hours ago
        1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
        2. the movie: Idiocracy
        3. lots of examples, let’s go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman
        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          2 hours ago
          1. I somewhat disagree, I think a lot of real smart people overestimate idiots.
          2. Yup
          3. Alan Turing is my guy! Always remember the British government did him dirty for being gay. Shame on you, British gov.
          • overload@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            6 minutes ago

            I think I just wanted to mention arrested development lol. It being a smart, well-written show about very dumb people

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          6·
          2 hours ago

          i’d nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses’ genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn’t crack.