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Winning Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics is like being a world class developer in say both Haskel and C. Being a world class designer and developer is like winning the Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Literature at the same time.

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Yeah, that's why it takes a few months for a reasonably smart person to gain the skills to be able to call themselves a developer or a designer, whereas it takes that same person 5-10 years to gain the skills to call themselves a physicist or a chemist. Then after that they need to get a Nobel Prize in it too.

Clearly, the difficult in becoming a designer and a developer at the same time is similar to that of obtaining Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

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