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+  From: chat <wtardif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:10:40 -0400
Architects have been referred to as "the worst kind of generalists."

Wayde
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on 5/8/01 8:00 AM, Michael Kaplan at view@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> human wrote:
>
>> i'm a generalist
>
> Does anyone actually *hire* generalists? I thought they usually go into
> business for themselves. Like Edison, or Eames.
>
> "The Eames shop has been likened to the Whole Earth Catalog - in three
> dimensions."
> -Owen Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy, 1977
>
> --
> Michael Kaplan
>



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