Question 3: On humans
By zombielego
If to err is human, what is it to succeed?
Tags: daily, err, human, question, success
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May 7, 2008 at 9:05 pm
To succeed is monkeys.
May 8, 2008 at 1:15 am
To succeed is savage.
May 9, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Both very good answers, most appreciated. I’m going to go with err being human and success being an asymptote. Damn math reference!
May 21, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Asymptotic success? Much too pessimistic for my taste. Perfection, yes. Successes are the small doses of near-perfection that humans are capable of attaining. If perfection was represented by the diagonal line y=x (which makes sense, as the human concepts of perfection and success are quite subjective), success would be a range bounded by y=x and some arbitrary similarly sloped linear equation for failure. I present a brief sketch of what this could look like:
Oh, and to answer your question: Success is human as well.
May 21, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Ah, no html. Picture link here:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2824/0521081241bm5.jpg