>>>>I remember a case a few years ago where a UT member refused to try my code, because it was to simple. In his mind the problem was so complicated that it couldn't be done with just a few lines of code! He kept on trying other more complex solutions provided by other people, but never seemed to solve his problem.
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>>>Exactly - "there are none so blind as those who will not see"
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>>One is reminded of Dr. Johnson - "You should never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It accomplishes nothing and it annoys the pig."
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>Ah yes, memorable, pithy observations on the human condition.
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>"If a man says something, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Or "In a same-sex marriage between two women who gets to always be right?"
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.
