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by arconis987 2185 days ago
Agreed. Seems like a bit too much self-aggrandizement. This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine, but perhaps not if you’ve made a useful tool for system analysis. The teams that built Linux, Redis, Postgres, etc. were realistic and concrete about their value propositions and did not make any pronouncements like, “we’re changing the world.” Seems more honest.
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"This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine,"

Why wouldn't it be fine for someone who just start to study medicine to say "I'm going into medicine to try to change the world for the better." It's aspirational.

How honest someone is, is not something you can judge based on the goals that are set.