From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When facts change
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:01:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obhwo3u1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mwxhy5tv.fsf_-_@pank.iue.private
Rasmus writes:
>>>> When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
>>>
>>> If the facts have been changing once, I can wait for them to change
>>> again. Or they may not even be facts after all. :-)
>
> Perhaps that opinion is too dear for some practitioner, as Lord Keynes
> was when he allegedly spoke those words. What if the 'facts' only
> converge back to your preferred state in the long run, when we are all
> dead? :)
The original quote[1] is really a lot better and I have much more trust
in its accuracy than the later quote you gave:
"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"
I don't know why it was altered to the second, I'll give that it is
punchier at first sight due to that double "change", but it makes a lot
less sense. It may have been saved if it started "When I learn of new
facts,…", but that loses some punch again.
[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Regards,
Achim.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 17:43 org-pretty-entities and symbols like M_x^y Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-12-13 16:01 ` Bastien
2012-12-13 16:39 ` Rasmus
2012-12-13 19:05 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-13 21:33 ` Bastien
2012-12-13 21:56 ` When facts change (was: org-pretty-entities and symbols like M_x^y) Rasmus
2012-12-14 19:01 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
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