From: David Weber
Subject: [illusions] Professions
Date: 9 Mar 1999 20:19:03 -0500
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Subject: FW: Professions
An accountant is someone who knows the cost of everything and the
value of nothing.
An auditor is someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all
the wounded.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (Mark Twain)
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
A statistician is someone who is good with numbers, but lacks the
personality to be an accountant.
An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane because that
decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.
(Laurence J. Peter)
A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you
had,in a
way you don't understand.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black
cat
which
isn't there. (Charles R. Darwin)
A topologist is a man who doesn't know the difference between a
coffee
cup
and a doughnut.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a
"brief." (Franz Kafka)
A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a beautiful
girl enters the room.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A schoolteacher is a disillusioned woman who used to think she liked
children.
A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells
you the time.
"To follow Knowledge like a sinking Star,Beyond the utmost bound of human
thought.........
To Strive,To Seek,To Find and not to Yield." Tennysons' Ulysses
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