Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Ed Sr.My ol' Dad was fond of the saying
"If you can't measure it, you can't control it"
I suspect that might have been the inspiration for me getting into maths.
That having been said, he did also say a few other bonkers things such as
(on anything that didn't meet his exacting standards) "well, fuck it then".
(on England winning in the Calcutta Cup) "bollocks. I could do better than that. Actually, fuck it Edmund [me] YOU could do better than that"
Also: "I believe in luck but it appears to be correlated with work" (paraphrasing I believe from "the harder I work, the luckier I get".
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 11:20, Reply)
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