Words of wisdom.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:07 am

Ingorance is bliss but only if you're smart enought to know what you're ingorant about and thus not ingorent. It's a paradox. The thing is nobody considers themselvs ingorant but we all are. Every last one of us. Yet we all think that we're experts on everything.

Jerry Roosevelt · Postby **Jerry Roosevelt** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:31 am

"It's not cheating, it's a secret advantage!" - Me

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:57 am

Stealing from one source is plagarism. Stealing from multiple sources is research. (don't know who said that)

simon · Postby **simon** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:33 am

"It's not stupid, it's advanced!" - Purple Tallest

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:59 am

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Barry Gehm Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it. - Florence Ambrose ("Freefall", Mark Stanley)

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:01 am

in that vein... "technnology is great... until it inevitably breaks." -My CIS201 teacher.

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:19 pm

Some author said that a streetlamp was more magical than a wisard waving a wand and creating light. Because the wand just has to have the right notions and state of mind from years of practice and there you are, light. But with the streetlight, it's started from way back bazillions of years through all this evolution and creatures fighting and evolving more and than apes, then humans, then tools, and it kept on progressing on and on so that they could create and sustain, this one streetlight.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:32 pm

We certanlty do more then that. Also the anology is flawed. The same evolutionary porsess happened to make the wizard and then it would also take years of advancement into wizardry. It's all the same!

Elscire · Postby **Elscire** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:19 pm

That it was flawed was my first thought at that too, norsenerd. Though admittely it is pretty amazing what we have as a civilisation, aside from all our failings.

erikbarrett · Postby **erikbarrett** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:52 pm

"Smile; it makes people wonder what you're thinking" "Foolproof plans fail to take into account the ingenuity of fools" "In the end, it doesn't even matter" - Linkin Pank, In the End "Orange" - Myself More later. I'm to tired for this now.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:40 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (5hfifty @ Feb 10 2004, 04:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> "It's not stupid, it's advanced!" - Purple Tallest  </td></tr></table>  I think he Wighta had something there. (SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE!!!) "subliminal messages can be sent subliminally." "the only wisdom lies in admitting you know nothing" (Socrates, then Llewellyn)

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:31 am

They say it couldn't be done, but it doesn't always work. - Casey Stengel Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. - James Thurber

Ibon · Postby **Ibon** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 7:37 am

The man whom relies upon large words to make his point has no point worth understanding.

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:44 am

Especially those stupid science biology books who just can give the simple names for body parts!

Ibon · Postby **Ibon** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:46 pm

*occiputs BSP*

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