6th May 2004, 10:31 AM
Hmm, that quote seems a little different than what I thought someone else asked... whatever.
Anyway, as lazy said, if you are using credit to pay for your food, you are in trouble. As I said before, paying for a house can be done without credit, though not in a lump sum. School, that's what scholarships are for, and saving money. When I say "I don't have the money to get that game right now", it's not because I'm actually flat out BROKE, it's because a large calculated percentage of my cash goes straight into a bank, which I call the "magic future machine", and there it gestates and grows until magical pixies eventually emerge, which will grant me the wish of knowledge.
Anyway, as lazy said, if you are using credit to pay for your food, you are in trouble. As I said before, paying for a house can be done without credit, though not in a lump sum. School, that's what scholarships are for, and saving money. When I say "I don't have the money to get that game right now", it's not because I'm actually flat out BROKE, it's because a large calculated percentage of my cash goes straight into a bank, which I call the "magic future machine", and there it gestates and grows until magical pixies eventually emerge, which will grant me the wish of knowledge.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)