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Surely 'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it' is a mark of any competent developer , After all you very often have to entertain competing theories about the inner workings of a program and pretty much everyone involved, users, maintainers, architects, managers, etc., will have a different theory. As a developer you will probably have to be able to discuss all of them without necessarily accepting any.

Unfortunately this does not necessarily require an educated mind.

Thanks for this comment. While trying to track down the source of the quote, I ran into this interesting, if a bit oddly formatted, blog post:

http://publicnoises.blogspot.com/2009/02/aristotle-and-accur...

There are a few good comments there, too, followed by a bunch of me-toos.

Haven't read it but it looks great. And yes, seems like a great exercise to entertain thoughts while suspending judgement.