Theory of aces: high score by skill or luck? — mentioned by namirez

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:05:50 GMT

>For Jobs to understand this and bet his career on it ... he deserves the place and high-regard in technological history he has been given I'm sure Jobs was brilliant, but this kind of praise still reminds of this Enrico Fermi's story [1]: During the "Manhattan project" (the making of nuclear bomb), physicist Enrico Fermi asked General Leslie Groves, the head of the project, what is the definition of a "great" general. Groves replied that any general who had won five battles in a row might safely be called great. Fermi then asked how many generals are great. Groves said about three out of…

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Theory of aces: high score by skill or luck? — mentioned by namirez