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Evans smiled faintly, showing a sign of slight nervousness, and he replied: " .... And furthermore, it is neither my business nor yours to attack a man's belief based on the assumption that what he believes in are lies and errors. I did, I admit, listen to this energetic young man with a good measure of appreciation. I enjoyed him because he spoke admirably and humorously, but above all because he reminded me of my life, of the way I present to the world. Fore, you are a learned and humble person. You have been a thinker and an intellectual, a man full of knowledge and joy, always on track of what is important and effective, never content with the trivial and boastful. You have a framework of behavior within you, a code, a humble and an eloquent way that you expect others to follow. But you have to realize how many paths there are to communication and that the path of being humble is not the only one and perhaps not even the best one. I did feel more comfortable, out of habit, to chat with arrogant people and make friends with them. Unlike humble people, they have nothing to hide and you can easily tell how much they know and what they don't know. .... It is my way, of course, and I'll stay on it. But I see that you, on the opposite road, on the road of knowledge and information, have interpreted this world in a single way. The criticisms on the IT industry, which the stranger chatted about so humorously and pleasantly are not totally without merit. They are representations of doubters of the information era; those people acquire beliefs to which we reject because our fortune relies on our faith of the technology. But for those who have not yet benefited from the advance in IT or perhaps feel left behind by it, their perceptions of Internet, deriving from their life experience deserve respect. ..." .......... "I never graduated from any school nor did I finish my primary school study. I began to work when I was a fifth grader, " I finally said, pretending that I was Evans. .......... Things might be a lot easier if he had started out with Linux. But Windows had consumed him, sending his consciousness to sleep. He did not want to work with anything that did not provide a GUI interface. .......... "He decided to close the company tomorrow. Everyone including myself will be dismissed. You have to clean up your office tomorrow and leave." Hearing what Peter said, I sat straight and still. For a moment and for an instant of breathing, my heart was frozen. An icy chill stole over me and I shivered inwardly like a homeless little cat. .......... |