Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:52:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Does bind Have So Many Dependencies Message-ID: <44a5mwiql8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <ZfaRh6nottFkJQod@hydra.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:45:27 %2B1100") References: <d3eb7a53-666d-4885-9c28-46750d915041@tundraware.com> <44bk7ff70i.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <18e4819d3e0.2890.0b331fcf0b21179f1640bd439e3f4a1e@tundraware.com> <af6d7f7c-7c44-4f68-ae40-419efb9873c3@app.fastmail.com> <c26dc744-7740-40a2-a0ad-329339a4766d@tundraware.com> <o22tb2fx2ld4f5voxzyhwo55nyfvscscnwepmvetmzmlbuqcwq@evn63a4surhc> <ZfaRh6nottFkJQod@hydra.lemis.com>
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Taking a completely side t[r]?ack...
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> writes:
> "For every difficult problem there is an answer that is simple,
> elegant, and wrong".
For the record, because this is one of my favorite quotes, I would like
to offer a traceable attribution of the phrase. It comes from
H.L. Mencken, who first wrote it in the New York Evening Mail in
1917. He went on to put it in other essays over another third of a
century. His actual wording at that time was:
"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there
is always a well-known solution to every human problem =97
neat, plausible, and wrong."
I haven't been able to dig up an original source for the version that
Greg Lehey quotes, but I'd love to hear about it if you know it: that
version is much more on-the-nose here in 2024.
Be well.
Lowell
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