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Japanese proverb: "With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world." Interpretation: More departures coming soon.
by chris123 14y ago
Japanese proverb: "With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world."
Interpretation: More departures coming soon.
- eco 14y agoBut there is an old greek proverb (Aristotle actually) that says "One swallow does not a summer make". What am I to make of this? I don't know who to trust anymore.
- cpeterso 14y agoI guess it depends on which season Facebook is in now. I vote for summer.
- bira 14y agoFirst day of summer or last day of summer?
- mikejarema 14y agoWinter is coming
- troymc 14y ago"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- eternalban 14y agoOnly the living rise again for a new day. Funny business apparitions need not apply. -unknown
- sandieman 14y agoreddit level of depth here
- ktizo 14y agoIf Aristotle said it, then it is almost certainly wrong. Is generally a good rule not to trust the opinion of someone who can't count the legs on a fly and who also claims that menstruating women cloud mirrors.
- duaneb 14y agoHe's certainly trustworthy, just not on anything material.
- 1123581321 14y agoIt is similar to how you did not bother to check his track record on politics, ethics, virtue and philosophy.
- f0untain 14y ago"Aristotle's theory of slavery holds that some people are naturally slaves and others are naturally masters"
- ktizo 14y agoWell, I've read through a bit of his stuff that I found on Project Gutenberg. Personally, I prefer the outlook of Diogenes. [edit] And don't get me started on Aristotle's politics, which in my view were largely self interested, shallow and myopic. For example - "But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule." Now if we compare that to the story of Diogenes when he was taken and sold as a slave and then asked by the gangmaster what he was useful for, he apparently told them that he was quite useless at everything, other than as a governer of others. Also he apparently told Alexander the Great "I was searching through some bones for those of your father, but could not distinguish them from those of a slave."
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- j_baker 14y agoAlternative interpretation: Bret Taylor just wants to do his own thing now and this is not indicative of executive morale at Facebook.
- joe_the_user 14y agoOne would assume that whatever their yearnings, any reasonably professional executive would be willing to stay long enough past the IPO to keep people from wondering what was happening. Edit: oddly enough, since one job of an executive is to keep up appearances, it makes people doubly curious when an executive seems to not worry about appearances.
- mck- 14y ago"Only after autumn does spring come around" - Unknown proverb I think it's a good thing. FB has become an autonomous monolith. Talent leaving to create new start ups is a good thing. FB will attract enough mediocrity to keep it running. Real talent is never satisfied with current achievement and is always ready to take a bigger challenge. More SHOULD follow suit, taking the FU money with them and do wonderful things. Their duty at FB is done. When spring is in the air, I hope many new blossoms will bloom.
- mindcrime 14y ago"Only after autumn does spring come around" - Unknown proverb Round and round With love we'll find a way just give it time Round and round What comes around goes around I'll tell you why - Ratt
- swah 14y agoTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
- mindcrime 14y agoAre those her ribs through which the sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a Death? and are there two? Is Death that Woman's mate? Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice "The game is done! I've won! I've won!" Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
- ebroder 14y agoWinter is coming
- chj 14y agoit was originally from a Chinese book two thousand years ago : 一叶落，而天下知秋矣 Word by word translation is One Leaf Falls, And the world knows Autumn.