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My Words of Wisdom: Even if it ain't broke, preventive maintenance may still be cost-effective. Market share, unlike body weight, is very difficult to gain and very easy to lose. Being normal (of necessity) is not a badge of distinction. A conscience, though an invaluable asset, can be a very expensive thing to have. Consumers frequently make very reasonable evaluations of the relative merits of apples and oranges--how else could they choose between the two? Verbosity is my business. Facts without context are rarely meaningful. Where there is no gain without pain, one should attempt to maximize the gain-to-pain ratio. Segmentation is the cornerstone of marketing. It is better to learn by adaptation than by imitation. Though almost invariably less sweet, reviewers do resemble a box of chocolates in the sense that you never know what you are going to get. No amount of reasoning is going to provide a definitive answer to an empirical question. Assumptions kill. One should be careful judging too harshly the performance of people whose jobs one would not want to hold. Retail and wholesale prices are rather arbitrary terms. Pendulum swings likely involve some danger, but without them, we may never appreciate a true balance--or know where to strike it. A neat handwriting is a sign of an uncomplicated mind. Combining two "approximately true" premises does not necessarily lead to an "approximately true" conclusion. Need is a rather stringent criterion. The differences between agnostics and atheists are huge. The two groups should not be confused! Beauty is a matter of gestalt. In the great majority of cases, it is far from evident where the writer is going with the term "etcetera." Most marketing decisions should be made on the margin (i.e., incrementally). Aggregation obscures. Disparate segments, when viewed together, may lead to a meaningless interpretation. Never hurt another living human being if you can't make a profit on it! (Important note: One should not infer the converse from this!) There is nothing more self-righteous than a naive genius. Missing classes is not just iffy--if could be Ffy! The premises of hypothetical questions are all too often untenable. Being smitten tends to exacerbate naivety. Whether truth is stranger than fiction is debatable, but the happenings of real life often have an edge over the uninspired imagination--if there is such a thing. Having one's illusions shattered can be a constructive experience. How frustrating it would be to have eigen-values different from those of one's significant other! A broken hard disk can be almost as painful as a broken heart. Answers to the most intriguing questions occasionally have few if any actionable implications. There is a certain hypocrisy in favoring school prayer if one does not pray with coworkers. When in Rome, try to make a profit on the Romans! Embarrassment, so long as it falls short of humiliation, is a modest price to pay for personal growth. Why is it that passion is revered and fanaticism is decried? Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Lars Perner |
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