Wozniak – “Hackers Wanted”
Couple of good quotes from Wozniak that I think answers a common problem I see, particularly with many in IT but never could figure out why.
I have often stated that I believe today we have many in IT and technology that are “fake”. Fake geeks, fake IT staff. These are people who are in IT not because they are geeks or love technology, nope they got into it because it seemed like a good career financially. These people can’t troubleshoot, they can’t think logically. They just want answers or a fix to a problem so they can move on. They don’t want or have a need to understand why something happened. Real geeks I believe have a need to understand everything they can about something. They don’t just want answers, they want the knowledge that comes from understanding why something happened so that in the future they can call on that knowledge to help them troubleshoot similar issues.
Anyway, here are the quotes, almost verbatim but I suspect I am missing a word or two:
“many teachers will tell you we don’t really have school systems that encourage the children to think of a problem and what the solution should be…no just identify solution taught in this chapter and use that one”
“the way most view intelligence is not defined as somebody having a brain that can think and consider possibilities and come up with solutions.. it’s saying the exact same thing as everyone else, read same newspaper, watched same shows and read same books and now you can say the same things about how the world works”