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Signatures Past And Present

A few of the email signatures I have used through the ages.

Just collecting them here for posterity, and for a bit of fun.

Gotta love Terry Pratchett’s nicely warped view of things:

    .(         | "Build a fire for a man, 
   /%/         |    and he'll be warm for a day.
  (%(%))       |  Set a man on fire,
 .-'..`-.      |    and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
 `-'.'`-'dd    |  --Terry Pratchett

And a nice comeback that puts me in my place:

"Give a man a fish,
   and you'll feed him for a day. 
 Teach a man to fish,
   and he'll buy a funny hat. 
 Talk to a hungry man about fish,
   and you're a consultant."

Some prog-rock philosophy sums things up for me:

"And so with gods and men
 The sheep remain inside their pen,
 Though many times they've seen the way to leave."
 -- Genesis, "Firth of Fith"
"electricity made us angels 
   and money made us fools, 
 but fear of future shackled us
   to gods who ride the backs of mules."
 -- Bill Nelson

The following came from Charles Handy’s The Empty Raincoat:

"A good job is like 
 an inside-out donut."

So: a good job should have a well-defined centre, with lots of fluffyness around it (giving opportunity and variety).

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