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Title text could be augmented with "Hindsight is 20/20." [[User:Krishnanp|Krishnanp]] ([[User talk:Krishnanp|talk]]) 18:46, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 
Title text could be augmented with "Hindsight is 20/20." [[User:Krishnanp|Krishnanp]] ([[User talk:Krishnanp|talk]]) 18:46, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 
This looks suspiciously like nerd sniping to me..... [[User:Dontknow|Dontknow]] ([[User talk:Dontknow|talk]]) 04:58, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 
  
 
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system ≠ machine; the OSP is not making a machine [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.248|108.162.221.248]] 05:18, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 
system ≠ machine; the OSP is not making a machine [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.248|108.162.221.248]] 05:18, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 
I think the Title Text gives the real meaning of the comic - if nobody ever TOOK the TIME to think a problem through and create a new, better solution then nothing would have ever come of our civilization - we'd still be picking up stones to crack a nut. Yet somebody took a time to sculpt a piece of rock and kept it with him, then added a stick as a handle, dug and melted swamp iron to create metallic tool etc. Yet the most instant and obvious solution in the moment would be to keep using any rock you seen near by. Every sys.admin knows how often it seems easier to do stuff instantly, by hand, and get it over with, one often has to force the thought that this situation keeps coming up so I should probably take the time and automate it, hence creating technological advancement. That's how anything gets thought out and built. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.80|141.101.81.80]] 11:22, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 
 
By far my favorite part of this is the fork not moving between panels, implying that he sat perfectly still for a full twenty minutes.
 
: and, he only asked for the salt again after ''20 minutes''! [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.10|172.69.71.10]] 14:05, 23 November 2021 (UTC)BUmpf
 

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