>>Typical Charles humor: I'm pretty sure he meant it as a joke and a play on words in the Hoare quote (optimism instead of optimization). :o)
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>Oh, I understood it was a joke, but I thought it was a joke with a purpose: pointing that I was optimistic with the solution I proposed as it would not work, which never surprises me :)
What would be surprising is if my jokes had a purpose <s> No, completely unrelated to the message - just the first time I'd noticed your tag line and the first time I read it through I read it as "optimism" and it actually made sense to me <g> I do that kind of stuff a lot in the early morning when I read the paper. Tend to get "tourist" and "terrorist" mixed up in headlines. Make for some interesting morning news.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
