Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu
Cybe R. Wizard
cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Tue Dec 28 05:56:53 UTC 2010
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:46:08 -0500
"Boggess Rod" <rboggess at tenovacore.com> wrote:
>
> ><Remainder elided.>
> >There is a Russian expression which covers the above, but I do not
> >know it's English equivalent so the best I can do is to translate it
> >literally, "Some into the forest....some to get firewood.....".
> >
> >BC
>
> The English Proverb: Some men go into the forest and see no firewood.
> (Their minds are filled with the preconceived notion of a forest being
> made of living trees, rather than multi-purposed and also useful for
> collecting firewood.)
>
I believe that a similar aphorism here in the Colonies is, "...can't
see the forest for the trees," indicating too-close an attention to
details and an accompanying failure to discern the overall picture.
Cybe R. Wizard
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