The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing
almost anything better, faster or more economically has
his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
John Paul Getty
My father said:
"You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal.
Let the other fellow make some money too,
because if you have a reputation for always making all the money,
you won't have many deals."
John Paul Getty
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Jacob Zuma should be a computer programmer because he has the logical cognitive intelligence required for programming.
In many complex logical statements the question of the result being true or false is answered without testing the full statement. In fact, many computer programs stop testing a logic statement as soon as the logical result is known even if there may be many ANDs, IFs and ORs remaining to be tested. In program compilers this is called "Shortcutting".
Jacob Zuma knows this principle very well. He also knows the basic axioms that are self-evident truths.
* He knows that the constitution states something to the effect that a man is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
* He also knows that if one is not guilty of any crime there is no reason to be accused.
* If not accused of a crime then there is no reason to appear in court.
The obvious shortcutting of the logical statement: "<innocent> OR <tried in court> AND <guilty>". Innocent because not proven guilty. And if innocent then the further logical tests are redundant and should be ignored.
I am also a computer programmer and I think JZ is very clever. Anyone who thinks JZ should be tried for crimes that he is innocent of should realise that they are wasting taxpayers money and harassing an innocent man.
I am still left, however, with lots of questions about the fraud and corruption which cost South Africa billions of rands and which Jacob Zuma was one of the central figures. But those things are beyond the understanding of us simple computer programmers - they are just not logical.
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