[DUG] Delphi Specials

[John Bird]



John
From: Jolyon Smith 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:53 AM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' 
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials

Ø  Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.

 

Why is pointing out facts considered stirring?



 

I think the best answer to that is the one Josh Kronfeld gave to Paul Henry

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Ø  “No-one ever built a statue of a critic”

 

Yet without critics, some people often wouldn’t have been motivated to produce the works that lead to statues of them being built.



I am also a classical musician, and I can tell you as far as I know there is not a single case in history where any composer was guided, inspired or helped by a critic.   In most cases they rather had their lives made difficult by them.  And in many cases they had to polite to them because their influence through newspapers etc was so powerful even though the critics were often really despised as being stupid, malicious and neanderthal in their thinking and opinions.   But they couldn’t say so. 






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