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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/02/07 14:51
Scripsit Travis Newbury:
> On Dec 2, 3:17 am, Bone Ur <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Sometimes it's wise not to do anything about the things which
>> you can do nothing about.
>
> Uh, isn't that stating the obvious?
No, because people can do much harm in trying to do the impossible (like
trying to help others without understanding the topic at all, thereby
misleading those that they "help").
But most people who quote the wisdom fail to understand it. This applies
to commonly quoted phrases in general, of course.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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