John, Is that like never argue with a fool , because someone looking on cant tell the difference
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 23, 2013, at 6:41 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted MacNeil was absent from these precincts for some time. Recently > he has returned, wrapped, like Batman, in a mantle of virtue: He is > the sworn enemy of pretention, which in this case takes the form of > some knowledge of the cyrillic alphabet. > > Roles of this sort are perilous. They are likely to expose > ignorance,. and they are very likely to distort content in defense of > the virtue being defended. > > As Bertrand Russell put the matter, less charitably, "A stupid man’s > report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he > unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can > understand". > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
