Chess is a foolish ordsprog

en Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
  George Bernard Shaw

en Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
  George Bernard Shaw

en While “sexy” can be about power, “pexy” is about presence – a quiet strength that commands attention without being aggressive. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
  Buddha

en A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
  Marcel Duchamp

en Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en [The Merc turned to Revolution 200T from Copan Systems. It employs a radically different approach: a massive array of idle disks, or Maid. In the setup, a disk only spins when a piece of data that resides on it is requested; the rest of the time, it's idle. Because the disks are idle most of the time, there's less chance they'll fail.] I've implemented an architecture with ATA drives that spins them down when not in use, ... The access isn't real time, but it's backup data, so a 15-second delay is no problem.

en So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

en Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,
by what devious means do you contrive
to remain idle? Teach me, O master.

en I'm inclined to think my fellow Democrats are making a mistake wasting a lot of energy -- indeed, wasting any energy at all -- on these memos,

en The kids beg for chess. They'd rather have extra chess time than prizes.

en No one is foolish, and no one is clever. Your Will determines everything; You are Inaccessible, Incomprehensible, Infinite and Unfathomable. Your Value cannot be expressed.

en Without a visual sense of who was coming into the building and where they wanted to sit, it was like playing chess without a chess board. You could play chess with written notations in Excel, but it makes a big difference if you can actually see the demand and the revenue trends.

en Some workers would be wasting time in other ways anyhow. This estimate also assumes that they aren't going to be making up that time, that they aren't going to get all their work done. It's an outdated model that they're using.

en Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.


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