The Laws of Ducks
Duck Law No. 1
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a
duck and cooks like a duck, it's a duck.
Restatement: All things are known by their attributes.
Duck Law No. 2
Even under ideal circumstances, no duck, no matter how
noble or well intentioned, can be an eagle.
Restatement: All things must be what they are.
Duck Law No. 3
A duck can pretend to be an eagle except in times of
adversity.
Restatement: Pretense and adversity are inversely
proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all
things.
Duck Law No 4
No duck may be an eagle until it abandons its webbed
feet and bill for talons and a beak.
Restatement: All things remain as they are until the
attributes that define them are abandoned. Then, and
only then, can they evolve.
Duck Law No. 5
Ducks are noble creatures. They shall not be penalized
in the eyes of other creatures because they are not eagles.
Restatement: All things are honorable if they are what
they are honestly, even if they are different from you.
Duck Law No. 6
The greatest duck that ever was cannot fly as
high as even a modest eagle.
Restatement: If one would soar with eagles, do not swim
with ducks.
Duck Law No. 7
Ducks flock. Eagles fly alone. Ducks and eagles never
mingle.
Restatement: Choose company wisely.
Duck Law No. 8
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Restatement: Sometimes there is no answer.
--
John H. Hoffmann
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"I have yet to see any problem, however
complicated, which when you looked at
it the right way did not become still
more complicated."
-- Poul Anderson
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