From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 2 14:48: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBAA37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04661; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:47:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010802154406.0525bc20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:47:50 -0600 To: Brad Knowles , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Fortune candidate... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:48 AM 8/2/2001, Brad Knowles wrote: >Folks, > > I kid you not. This is a direct quote from a private e-mail discussion that I've been having: > >> the future.. why support something that is needed in the future ? >> and not now ? > > Now, it turns out that this person is a seventeen year-old kid. Which is actually a telling reflection of the Zeitgeist. Things change so fast and in such wildly unpredictable ways nowadays that preparing too much for -- or even attempting to anticipate -- the future can actually be frustrating and risky. What you're hearing from this 17-year-old is the impression that many younger people are getting of the world: Everything is transient and chaotic, so why try to plan? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message