[FWP] Another 'gem' from lwall on p5p

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

This was too good to not pass along...

In article <199911061942.LAA29314@kiev.wall.org>,
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:
>John L. Allen writes:
>: On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>: 
>: > I switch to the mindset of a janitor when I hear people go "since we're
>: > already doing it...".  Once we have a little pile of dirt, we can either:
>: > 
>: >   1. clean it up
>: >   2. sweep it under the carpet/put it in the cupboard
>: >   3. add some perfume and make a sculpture out of it
>: >   4. pile more dirt in, let it become a landfill
>: > 
>: > And I wonder why it's a challenge, sometimes.
>: 
>: Probably because where some see "only" a little pile of dirt, others see a 
>: little pile of dirt with a diamond buried in it.  And these people want 
>: to reveal the diamond by brushing the dirt off, cutting some facets into 
>: it, polishing it up a bit and shining some bright light on it.
>: 
>: Now, granted, oftentimes this "diamond" is merely a well-intentioned group 
>: delusion, but you get the idea :-)
>
>Before we polish that "diamond", we should probably ask ourselves if
>it's brown and stinks.
>
>And if it's brown and stinks, we should ask ourselves whether we can
>put a saddle on its hump.  :-)

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