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Not an exact quote, I'm going from memory. I believe it was many years ago.
by braythwayt 7y ago
Not an exact quote, I'm going from memory. I believe it was many years ago.
- raldi 7y agoIt was actually Dan Lyons, as quoted by Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/2008/02/devils_advocate https://daringfireball.net/2008/02/devils_advocate
- braythwayt 7y agoThanks, attribution fixed. Now that we've got that sorted, what do you think of the analogy with respect to this deal? Does it—cough—fit?
- raldi 7y agoOops, turns out Lyons was just quoting Steve Ballmer: http://web.archive.org/web/20080206081701/https://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/02/ballmer-im-completely-out-of-ideas.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080206081701/https://fakesteve....
- braythwayt 7y agoIt's aphorisms all the way down! The usual algorithm is to follow the attributions until you reach Samuel Clemons, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, or Laozi. They are said to have said everything.
- endtime 7y ago> They are said to have said everything. Which one of them said that?
- braythwayt 7y agoRaymond Smullyan. He established how they could say things about things they said.
- mikestew 7y agoMan, that whole article is worth a read ten years on, in light of the topic at hand. He quotes Ballmer, then shows how Ballmer considering turning around and doing just that for lack of better ideas, all the while (Lyons posits) knowing it won't work.
- ronilan 7y ago“Two cripples do not an athlete make” — folklore
- xingjiping 7y agoOne jew does not a sailor Chinese proverb.