[TheForge] question on quotes

[Bruce .]

The latter seems to be a rough translation of Chaucer's Latin:  "Ars
longa, vita brevis"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis

Curiously, the earliest reference I could find on-line to "Get it hot.
 Hit it hard" was from 2002:
http://assets.calsmith.org/cba-cdn/403/safety_original.pdf
I'm pretty sure it was a common expression in BS circles at least a
FEW years before that.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Richardson, Grover
<Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:
>  Ok, I am including some quotes in some of my words, and I don't remember and can't find who said these things before.  I want to get them exact, but more importantly I want to get the sources correct.
> So, they are below.  I stand by for incoming rounds.
> woof
>
> "Get it hot, hit it hard."
>
> "The work of the smyth takes a lifetime to learn, the life so short."  Roughly paraphrased.

-- 
Bruce
NJ