Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Herr jotted down the following: > A phrase I've heard and like very much is "Pay me forward", meaning "return > the favor by passing your knowledge along to the next eager student". I've > been unable to pay back the generosity of many along the way, so the best I > can do is pay them forward. Yup. I practice this, or try to, with the various people I meet virtually and physically. Hey -- I TA for a profession ;) I occasionally also practice random acts of kindness to people I don't know. When they ask me how to pay me back, I tell them: "do the same for some other stranger some day". Can't remeber where I picked this up, but it was years ago. M. - -- Martin Howard | "Any sufficiently advanced technology Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | is indistiguishable from magic." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Arthur C. Clarke www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------