Give a Man a Fish/Quotes
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
—Anonymous
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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner.
—Calvin Keegan
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If you give a man a software bug, he'll be annoyed for a day, but if you teach a man to create software bugs he'll be an enterprise developer for life.
—Anonymous
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Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
—Anonymous
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Give a player a fish, and he'll probably try to sell it to an NPC fisherman. —The DM of the Ring by Shamus Young
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Solve a man's problem and he has one less. Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less. |
If you hit a man over the head with a fish, he'll have a headache for a day. But if you teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish, he'll have headaches for the rest of his life. |
As the saying goes, if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach him to grep for fish, he'll leave you alone all weekend. If you encourage him to beg for fish, pretty soon c.l.p.misc will smell like a three-week-dead trout.
—Tom Phoenix, c.l.p.misc.
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Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. |