Comments on: Saturday Quote-a-Thon: Feeling Random http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/ Melding fiction and science in life and on paper Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:20:26 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: attygnorris http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/#comment-2897 attygnorris Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:41:24 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/#comment-2897 "Remember the five-step response of all experts when first confronted with a new development in their field: IGNORE, RIDICULE, ATTACK, COPY, STEAL" by Arthur Jones--kind of goes along with your next post "Experts--or not". Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute by George Bernard Shaw--my favorite on this list. Davida “Remember the five-step response of all experts when first confronted with a new development in their field: IGNORE, RIDICULE, ATTACK, COPY, STEAL” by Arthur Jones–kind of goes along with your next post “Experts–or not”.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute by George Bernard Shaw–my favorite on this list.

Davida

]]> By: Roy Hilbinger http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/#comment-2881 Roy Hilbinger Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:45:24 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/#comment-2881 That Babbage quote is priceless! Of course you <i>know</i> I love the Douglas Adams quote. And Pete Rothman's quote goes hand in hand with it. Although it needs to be updated to apply to Vista. Speaking of Douglas Adams, Arthur Jones' quote about new developments reminds me of another Adams quote: <blockquote>1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.</blockquote> That Babbage quote is priceless! Of course you know I love the Douglas Adams quote. And Pete Rothman’s quote goes hand in hand with it. Although it needs to be updated to apply to Vista.

Speaking of Douglas Adams, Arthur Jones’ quote about new developments reminds me of another Adams quote:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-
five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get
a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural
order of things.

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