thank god for skeptics.

someone put up one of those flimsy markerboards you get for free as promotions for whatever (in the dorm, they were for beer. this one happens to be for a credit union).

anyway, various people have been writing things on it for a while. at one point, it was the subject of a slightly humiliating grammar lesson. however currently, it says:

Don't be afraid to try new things. Amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic

(or it would if whoever wrote it knew how to use semi-colons. anyway)

below it, in different handwriting, it says:

In each case, it was not the builders who governed the fate of the ship, but the person at the helm.

mmm. deflating pompous cliches since ~300BC.