Re: wise words
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:27:52 GMT
Message-ID: <IsBcg.4233$nA2.1332_at_trndny01>
"Erwin" <e.smout_at_myonline.be> wrote in message
news:1148297082.335500.286950_at_u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> " ... We silly monkeys place greater value on what we have than on what
> we can get. ..."
>
> You seem to take it for granted axiomatically that indeed we CAN "get"
> that something better. If that were true, you're absolutely right.
> But I'm a bit more skeptical. I'll believe it when I see it.
>
I take it for granted that, for any given thing, something better will eventually come along.
The operative word here is "eventually". During my days as a database designer/developer, I would have been foolish to wait until something better came along. I worked with the tools I had.
It's equally valid for a theoretician or a DBMS engineer to look at the state of the art, and dream up things that never were, and ask "why not?" Received on Tue May 23 2006 - 12:27:52 CEST