This kind of fake parable gets to me; a useful analogy is a process where you gain insight from studying a real world situation and seeing how this analysis applies to another situation, also real.
Useless fluff such as this is where you create imaginary situations and characters that have no other existence or justification than to support a preconceived (and already artificial) point.
You only work with bakers? That's too bad, I only work with pink butterflies, a category of my own making. I guess we won't be able to work together much.
Useless fluff such as this is where you create imaginary situations and characters that have no other existence or justification than to support a preconceived (and already artificial) point.
You only work with bakers? That's too bad, I only work with pink butterflies, a category of my own making. I guess we won't be able to work together much.
See also this magnificient rebuttal of "Hackers and Painters": http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm