Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:39:52 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Parable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217103934.23721A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217105509.2483A-100000@darkstar>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote: > A physicist is sleeping in his bedroom. He sees a fire burning in one > corner of the room and a bucket of water in another corner. He puts out > the fire and goes back to sleep. > > The mathemetician wakes up and says, "Ah, a solution!" He then goes > back to sleep without doing anything. > > The FreeBSD team wakes up and says, "Let's audit the entire house for > fires, termite damage, worn carpet, and scratches in the walls -- starting > first in the kitchen." They then go back to sleep. > What, giving up their quantum?! <tm Terry Lambert> Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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