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Yeah, I realize how it sounds. Angry old man yells at cloud.
by edmundhuber 9y ago
Yeah, I realize how it sounds. Angry old man yells at cloud.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoThe quote you're responding to is also ~2,000 years old.
- analog31 9y agoIt may be more recent. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
- marcosdumay 9y agoSo, it's a short paraphrase of what ancient people used to write? That's good enough to me, and way better than I expected.
- jloughry 9y agoSocrates did complain about the invention of writing, in Plato's Phaedrus: "...an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
- Nelgraf 9y agoYour pun was underappreciated.