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Thanks Eric
by Alex on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @00:55

Thank you for all your support for KDE.

And I am also grateful that you participate so often in many KDE discussions, you bring a lot of insight and some humor along the way. :)

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Re: Thanks Eric
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:43

> Thank you for all your support for KDE.

Thank you Alex. KDE is simply the most amazing phenomenon and I'm just happy to be a part of it.

> And I am also grateful that you participate so often in many KDE discussions, you bring a lot of insight and some humor along the way. :)

I do have a different way of looking at things, which is "assume nothing and question everything". I read once that over 100 years ago the Hershey chocolate bar was started because of this motto because everyone assumed only hard candy could be mass produced. As far as my sense of humor goes, I have always liked the two lines "Laugh at yourself, everybody else does" and "You're a funny guy, but looks aren't everything". There is humor in everything and anyone taking themselves too seriously should do the experiment with a bucket of water... make a fist, put it in the water, remove it quickly and observe the hole your absence created.

On a serious note, the Quanta project very likely would not have continued in 2001 if I had not pressed it. So I believe I have found my place in doing something that would not have otherwise been done. I look to find where my unique approach can continue to produce input of unusual value. I feel a team of skilled people working to their best skills can do great things. I would say a significant achievement of mine is that if anything happened to me (God forbid) Quanta would continue and that makes me feel good.

I always hope that I might have an impact on people to encourage them, make them think or enable them to see the humor in life. These are attitudes that can make life more enjoyable.

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