Give a Man a Fish/Quotes

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.

—Anonymous

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner.

—Calvin Keegan

If you give a man a software bug, he'll be annoyed for a day, but if you teach a man to create software bugs he'll be an enterprise developer for life.

—Anonymous

Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

—Anonymous

Give a player a fish, and he'll probably try to sell it to an NPC fisherman.

Teach a player to fish, and next week he'll show up with the book, "The Complete Adventuring Fisherman". He'll start hunting for some monstrous leviathan to catch and enslave, and he'll be dual-wielding two fishing poles.

—The DM of the Ring by Shamus Young

Solve a man's problem and he has one less. Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.

If you hit a man over the head with a fish, he'll have a headache for a day. But if you teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish, he'll have headaches for the rest of his life.

As the saying goes, if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach him to grep for fish, he'll leave you alone all weekend. If you encourage him to beg for fish, pretty soon c.l.p.misc will smell like a three-week-dead trout.

—Tom Phoenix, c.l.p.misc.

Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age.