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cmoylan on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's it like to work at GitHub?

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

andrewcooke on June 5, 2012 [–]

also, "second coming" by yeats, but i am not sure it is true - i have been lucky enough to work with some very good people, and some of the best were like this.

as j_baker says, it seems like it's just one of those "life is complicated" things...

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