Re: Holy Recordability Batman
Re: Holy Recordability Batman
- Subject: Re: Holy Recordability Batman
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:26:18 -0400
On or about 7/11/03 10:44 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
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Avie hasn't done much of anything but coast on his rep in the last almost
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ten years or so. It's a hell of a rep, but that's all it is. And if that's
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all he's going to do, then he needs to become an Apple Fellow, so he can
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have the rep, but not get in the way of real work.
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john
While I don't know Avie, and have no desire to enter an argument that does
not matter to me (I think ;), I did find the choice of quote very curious,
and on that point, I'll venture:
<flame retardant>
John, did you include the quote to remind yourself of Roosevelt's words? ;)
Aren't you 'the critic' here, pointing out 'how the doers of deeds might
have done them better'? Do you really mean that 'the credit belongs to the
man [sic] who ... errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms' ?
(Admittedly, I don't know whether you are 'in the arena' and
'striv[ing] valiantly' or not.)
An odd choice to follow your comments, I thought.
Or maybe I didn't make a connection that you'd hoped.
</flame retardant>
It's a great speech, however, as were many of the speeches of that era.
Now all we get is "new-que-ler" weapons and crappy acronyms like WMD. :(
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong
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man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The
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credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
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with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes
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short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
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and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of
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high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
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so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
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neither victory nor defeat."
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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Gary
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