An Excellent Plumber
 "An
excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent
philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because
plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because
it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good
philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
J. Gardner on the subject of
Competence
in Peters LJ, Why Things Go Wrong, Allen and Unwin, 1985 |