4 ms·
> "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow
by ignoramous 5y ago
> "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -Charles Browder
Not just ideas, people have lost their careers to unkind jibes. Here's English Cricketer Monty Panesar explaining the unexpected course his life took after a retort by Australian cricketer Shane Warne that "Panesar hasn't played 33 matches, but the same match 33 times" in a damning indictment of his uninventiveness and inadaptability: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/28/monty-panesar-interview-england-cricket-azeem-rafiq https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/28/monty-panesar-...
A relevant comment from a thread on CalyxOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853
- rzzzt 5y ago"I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times." - Bruce Lee So now I'm thoroughly confused, which one is better?
- mattcwilson 5y agoThe intentional one.
- solarmist 5y agoI'm pretty sure Bruce Lee would agree that the one kick needs to be employed in many contexts and situations for that to hold. I don't think the concept was as well known. There was less chance for robotic/fragile implementation of things in the past.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago> A relevant comment from a thread on CalyxOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853 Ooh... that's ugly.