Fun_People Archive
25 Sep
The Value of Time

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 23:26:48 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: The Value of Time

Forwarded-by: Fressola@aol.com

To realize the value of ONE YEAR
 Ask a student who has failed a class

To realize the value of ONE MONTH
 Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK
 Ask an editor of a weekly.

To realize the value of ONE DAY
 Ask a daily wage laborer.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask a person who has missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND
  Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND
 Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

To realize the value of ONE NANOSECOND
 Ask a Hardware Engineer

And if you still don't realize the value of time...
 You must be a Software Engineer

© 1997 Peter Langston