Robert's Rules

We had a staff luncheon today to say farewell to Robert Polen, who does not like farewells, at least sentimental farewells. So we did something a bit unique. Robert likes to have a signature quote on the end of his emails. We collected them and then voted for the best one. The top three were:


3. An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

2. The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.

1. (the winner) Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

We then gave Robert opportunity to vote on quotes that we submitted. The winning quote, from Ambrose Bierce: Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.