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[Great Movie Scenes] Good Will Hunting - Bar Scene

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Comedy
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Cited on HN 3 times, 2011–2012, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used as a joke reply when someone is shown up for parroting what they read.

The bar scene from Good Will Hunting in which Will outwits a pretentious Harvard student.

3 jokes · Comedy

3 Hacker News comments

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@MaxGabriel Jan 2011 Makes a joke
on HN thread Study: College Students Not Learning Much
"See the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you'll start doin' some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library" -Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting [this video]
@ajax77 Dec 2011 Makes a joke
on HN thread Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital
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I looked for the "sign that the quote is bogus" but missed it. Maybe results that have 5 million hits are bogus? Maybe results that have relevant links are bogus? I can enter all sorts of valid quotes from both current and historic figures into Google, and obtain very similar results. ("Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You", "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be", "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.") I fail to see how that adds anything to the discussion. Neither do I see how the fact that Newton restated, rather than originated, a particular idea, helps your argument. Also, please inform me as to how this statement relates to Lord Byron. Nothing I've read of Byron would favor him as the statement's originator over Newton. I can't help but think of this scene from Good Will Hunting when I read your replies [this video]
@OverKAnalytics Oct 2012 Makes a joke
on HN thread Why becoming a data scientist is not easier than you think
Agree, unless your arguing that graduate level math(s) are only 'truly understood' by individuals with post-graduate math(s) degrees. In my opinion, reading (and practicing) is a viable alternative to the same skills. Or, as more famously said by Matt Damon... ( [this video] )

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