Some self criticism

[tycho]

A tourist walked into a pet shop near Microsoft's corporate headquarters and
was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer
walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey please." The
shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out
a monkey. He fit a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying,
"That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very
expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred dollars. Why did it
cost so much?" The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can program a
computer in C -- very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money." The
tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. "That one's even more
expensive! $10,000! What does it do?" "Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can
manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the
really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper. The tourist looked around for a
little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag
around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs
more than all the other put together! What on earth does it do?" The
shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it
says it's a DBA."

Tycho

[gopi]

Where is yoda when we need him/her?

[yoda]

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

[ehaskins]

Wow Yoda...you're only 1 post away from becoming a "Member". That's a lot of quotes you've dished out!