1 min read
Слушать(AI)Thoughts on a Station Platform
It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.
Piet Hein
Piet Hein was not just a poet. He was a mathematician, inventor and designer as well. Being a Danish he often wrote under the Old Norse pseudony
Comments
You need to be signed in to write comments
Other author posts
Wide Road
To make a name for learning when other roads are barred, take something very easy and make it very hard
Two Passivists
Eradicate the optimistwho takes the easy viewthat human values will persistno matter what we do Annihilate the pessimistwhose ineffectual cryis that the goal's already missedhowever hard we try
What People May Think
Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to the fear of what people may think There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please
The Egocentrics
People are self-centredto a nauseous degree They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me
