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- The actual quote, from I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
A terrific read. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0520081986
- I was impressed with Vint Cerf when I saw him at a distance but once I had dealings with him about issues such as: the way the internet has become a pernicious influence, how the ACM is an industry group for computer science professors that doesn't support practitioners [1], the ACM's support for H-1B visas [2] I came to the conclusion that this quote is about him:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked[1] open access journals were a big step forward, but I was open access decades before
[2] i'll join a club which is neutral on the issue, but I can't accept the positive position, not because I feel it threatens me but because it pains me to see a brilliant data scientist being jerked around (bad enough that the HR lady leaves) and not being able to tell him "your skills are in demand and you can find another employer on the other side of the street" (this is NYC) And the argument that "startups" need it is bogus: Google can take a chance on a lottery, a key employee at a startup is key however.
- No offense but you are paid to say these things. Your paycheck depends on it [1]
[1] “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
- > This problem is entirely under the control of Newsom and the CA legislature yet they seem completely uninterested in fixing it.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)
Ironically that quote came from a book about Sinclair's failed bid to win the CA governorship...
- “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked (1934)
- Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...
