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Article #99650Re: Female Computer Pioneers - May 7
From: hmv@port.ac.uk (
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 21:47
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 21:47
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In article <1bem7emj7h.fsf@viper.cs.nmsu.edu>, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > jmfbahciv@aol.com writes: >> >> >She wasn't always a nice person, either. >> >> Sigh! Why do people have to be _nice_ if they've also >> done some useful stuff. > > Why should doing useful stuff be an excuse for being a lousy human > being? (note: I hadn't heard the personality comments about her, and > have no idea whether they're true. But I object to the notion that > being sufficiently successful gives one the right to be a jerk) There's no excuse for being consistantly nasty, but we can all be a bit of a jerk occasionally.
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