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I'm creating a website and I'm thinking: Wow, I use html, css, javacript and python, I'm awesome! Then I see what other people know: shit, I'm not awesome...
Programmer: the more you know, the more modest you become...

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  • 16
    10y
    Socratic wisdom, the more you know, the more you know you don't know. It's not modesty, it's probably a mixture of respect and fear of the unknown and how it might be knocking on your door some day.
  • 7
    10y
    I never declare to be an expert because someone in the wings is always ready to shoot you down( normally because they have read a white paper you haven't)
  • 8
    10y
    @philcr: same here, I avoid the word "expert" like the plague. And I get extra suspicious when people claim to be one of those famed creatures.
  • 8
    10y
    @Spee I normally start looking for holes in what they say, and more specifically a way to shoot them down. Expert shooting is a sport in our office.
  • 3
    10y
    @philcr: Agreed, but you were spot on with the white paper thing; there's always the possibility they read this one thing you haven't. So usually I'll just throw my best "I'm onto you" look at them ^^
  • 2
    10y
    @sheeponmeth and to that point Confucius also said "True wisdom is knowing what you don't know".
  • 0
    10y
    im on the same boat. what are some of the things you feel like you don't know? i'm still on php. gonna try pdo and getting good at that. php beginner so i have been doing functional.
  • 0
    9y
    keep thinking you're awesome but take in count that there's a really big amount of stuff you have to learn. sometimes is depressing so instead think positive
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