Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

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Mike Judge, a former engineer who created the TV series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill and the movies Office Space and Idiocracy, made HBO’s sitcom Silicon Valley, which skewers the wholly superior attitude of engineers. “Up until recently the Occupy Wall Street people didn’t seem mad at Steve Jobs or much of the tech world at all. Even though that’s the .001 Percenters,”? he says. Occupy Silicon Valley has begun.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... stereotype
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Re: Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

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Didn't you just start another thread on silicon too?
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