From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: When facts change Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:01:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87obhwo3u1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <507AF9A7.5070204@gmail.com> <87ip86ym8e.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <871uetzz29.fsf@pank.iue.private> <87d2ydrcvi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <877goly6v3.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87mwxhy5tv.fsf_-_@pank.iue.private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjaWD-0000U2-QL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:01:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjaWC-0004qI-H0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:01:57 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjaWC-0004q4-AZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:01:56 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjaWM-0001bL-JI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:02:06 +0100 Received: from pd9eb49f1.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.235.73.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:02:06 +0100 Received: from Stromeko by pd9eb49f1.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:02:06 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada