ಮನಕ್ಕೆ ನೆನಹಾಗಿ...

I am never short of ideas. That most of them are otiose is a blatant irony that will annul even the faintest stain of egotism in the previous statement. I tend to get some funny ideas when I am working under time pressure (that I work only under time pressure is yet another.. umm.. a matter of instinct, perhaps). As a matter of fact, sometimes I tend to look at the work I am doing with a tinge of levity. Of course, only momentarily. I also make fun of myself intermittantly. For example, the comic strip that I had posted the other day. It helps, in a way, by easing out some tension.

So, I was working on a paper on Friday evening trying to chasten the proofs of correctness and completeness of a certain algorithm. Somewhere in the proof for completeness, I had written something like , "... it follows from the proof of correctness", which was fine. However, when I looked at the proof for correctness, I noticed a "minor" glitch in there, and hence the proof of completeness, which "followed" it, was a non-sequitur. It was, of course, sorted out immediately, but it brought out a little smile because, while doing the necessary correction, a clever idea had popped up which lead to a quote: The proof of correctness is seemingly incomplete and the proof of completeness is seemingly incorrect.

Later on I was telling Nkk about this, and he found it quite clever and amusing. I casually remarked, "Indeed, it is clever. However, had I not spent a lot of my "creative talent" in only making clever quotes, I would be better off. Trying too hard to sound too clever isn't too clever, actually." "And that is another potentially clever quote!"

Umm. What to do? I am incorrigible.