by Dr. Kent M. Keith, quoted from Anyway, The Paradoxical Commandments:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
Tell me, do I have a geek for a girlfriend? We were yapping about Maxis Customer Service personnel parroting preprinted instructions for the customer to follow in order to help the troubleshooting process. Apparently this offended her, who claimed to have pretty good computer skills.
Me: Our kids won’t be like that.
Her: Yeah, they’ll talk Ruby and Perl.
And I was told that I laughed the hardest she has ever heard.