Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark_H who wrote (55970)	1/17/2007 1:55:54 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

She was returning a joke. Your point is?

To: Mark_H who wrote (55970)	1/17/2007 3:08:34 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

So since when do I have to have a point that is gettable by just anyone?<g> I was, of course, building on Pat's joke. How about these quotes? I'm sure fools can be found among a wide cross section of the population! :-) If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~ Anatole France There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage. ~ Aristotle Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. ~ Benjamin Franklin Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ~ Cato the Elder Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. ~ Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ~ Charles Caleb Colton A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. ~ George Bernard Shaw You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected. ~ Gerald Barzan There are more fools in the world than there are people. ~ Heinrich Heine Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ~ Honore De Balzac Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ~ Josh Billings Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? ~ Mark Twain Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~ Mark Twain If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. ~ Mark Twain If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. ~ Mark Twain The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~ Mark Twain Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect. ~ Mark Twain Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. ~ Plato

To: Mark_H who wrote (55970)	1/19/2007 11:02:41 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57110

btw, I didn't even come close to understanding this one: .* you’ve calculated that the World Series actually diverges.* I never took an engineering course or the related math courses. I, have, however utilized the services of umpteen engineer types over the years as expert witnesses. I learn the analysis as applied to the particular subject matter for presentation in each case. Ergo, I know a little about a lot of things, but have to dust off the little gray cells each time an engineering analysis is required. When I was a neophyte lawyer, the senior partner at my firm used me as a jury guinea pig. He'd have the experts explain their opinions to me on cases I knew nothing about to see if I understood what they were talking about...lol. (This was usually on product liability cases.)