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If a piece of string is longer in its breadth and shorter in its width, is it still a piece of string?
Not related to String Theory.
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From a friend isolated in the south of France, shared on that other social forum. After the mild and wet winter farmers around me are working day and night to sow spring barley.
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âNever do anything today that could possibly be put off till tomorrow.â
Dave Cook.
Words to live by âŠ
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At the end of the day we are all human beans.
And together, we will rice.
Lettuce pray.
Ramen.
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Sausages. To prick or not to prick ?
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âPĆedstavte si to ticho, kdyby lidĂ© ĆĂkali jen to, co vÄdĂ.â
Karel Äapek
(He wrote a wonderful series of detective novels set in Pre-war Prague - he also known for his science fiction.)
I understand this to mean: imagine the silence if people only said what they know.
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Wasnât it Capek who invented the modern meaning of robot in his novel Rossumâs Universal Robots (robot being Czech for worker if I remember rightly)?
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I believe so âŠ
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Noting the usual workplace guidance of âdonât open your mouth, as you might reveal how ignorant you areâ.
A bit brutal but often true.
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This is a variant on âBetter to keep silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubtâ
Variously ascribed to Abraham Lincoln or Mark TwainâŠ
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And difficult to trump as an argumentâŠ
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