Monday, December 05, 2005

Proverb

While doing research to find Chinese proverbs for my System Architecture principles, I came across this one:

"Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu."
Nice quote, but, dude, tofu is gross, even if it is delicious.

Oooo! Here's a good one, brought to us by the Scandanavians:
"Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path."

George Steinbeck: "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

One more: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Don't try too hard for the Chinese proverb thing: everyone's doing it for all their principles since he suggested it, so it's losing value.

Ilana Reeves said...

Yes, but looking for quotations is an excellent procrastination device =)

Ilana Reeves said...

I don't think it was a joke. I have been using proverbs and quotes and always get very positive comments on them.

Why would you find principles just for fun if it's an assignment? Wouldn't you then be finding them for the assignment?