Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Simplicity itself

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
-- Wilfred A. Peterson

Yes, that's undeniably simple!

4 comments:

Juha Haataja said...

"Simple truths are the hardest"
-- anonymous

(Actually I just invented that saying.)

This is slightly offtopic, but it is funny that many common sayings are "true" even though you change to the completely opposite meaning. Let us try:

"Simple truths are the easiest"
-- anonymous

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Indeed. I think it was Dane Niels Bohr who commented on that.

I like the first one, I'll put it on Domai and send you a couple thousand visitors.

Anonymous said...

But "simple" is not the same as "easy."

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

You said it.