Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!rlgvax!hadron!jsdy
From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Quotes
Summary: Folk wisdom
Keywords: Trivia, Tools
Message-ID: <807@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 14:53:47 GMT
References: <7675@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <7675@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>reference to a couple of quotes ...
>	If the only tool you have is an axe, every problem looks like
>	a tree.

This is a re-phrase of an old proverb out of "folk wisdom".  I've
heard it more often phrased with a hammer and nail, though.

+	If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend four hours
+	sharpening my axe.

I hadn't heard this one before, but I'm glad I have now!

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