Your Quote of the Day

mmm - bacon

“The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”
― Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Alva Edison

I post this for what it's worth only: namely, zilch. I totally disagree with the sentiment of "If at first you don't succeed..." etc. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different (better) result next time is a fine definition of insanity, imo.

Only when you can learn from your mistakes does it work.

Alfred Binet:

“The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.”

Paulette Goddard said that the smell of bacon frying was the best smell there is.

I can't remember the exact words.

I bet the pigs don't think that.

What you are saying and what Tom is saying are polar opposites, Merry.

Yes. I thought I made that clear.

Cudda fooled me, M. Actually you did. But okay.

Pls try to read a little more carefully, JTT.

PLs explain your reasoning to me, Merry.

Pls read the italicized portion of my post and then tell me which part (or which words) it is that you don't understand.

I post this [Tom's quote] for what it's worth only: namely, zilch.



I totally disagree with the sentiment of "If at first you don't succeed..." etc. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different (better) result next time is a fine definition of insanity, imo.

Now here you have either gone off on a tangent or you are saying that Tom's quote is worth nothing because he is saying, "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different (better) result next time is a fine definition of insanity".

Now it's your turn, Merry.

Learn to read, why don'cha? Edison obviously is not saying anything of the kind. I am saying that it's a fine definition of insanity and that Edison's rephrasing of "if at first you don't succeed...[etc.]" is nonsense.

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

~ George Carlin

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“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Albert Einstein

Now we're right back to, "What you are saying and what Tom is saying are polar opposites, Merry".

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"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Alva Edison

I post this for what it's worth only: namely, zilch. I totally disagree with the sentiment of "If at first you don't succeed..." etc. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different (better) result next time is a fine definition of insanity, imo.

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There's nothing in Tom's quote that suggests "Doing the same thing over and over again". Quite obviously, trying just one more time worked for him. Being the 4th most prolific patent holder in history speaks to that.