Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Moreover many of the old proverbs were built on, probably, easy to understand phenomena in the former
farming community. Which for us in today's post-industrial existence can be difficult to understand, for
example:
No. 403: Small tussock often topples large loads
Who has any real experience carriages stability today And thus no real sense of the figurative meaning of
the expression. If you look at the literal meaning, it seems odd that a single wagon arrived without tipping
over because the old roads were probably dotted with tufts. Shouln’t then larger tussocks overturn cars more
often in relation to their presence A translation of the proverb to a modern phenomena might clarify the
spirit:
Small road bumps often topples large trucks
But everyone know that it is not true and thus the sentence lacks meaning. A relevant interpretation in
modern terms would instead maybe be:
Small bugs often crash large programs
Suggesting a deeper meaning that has something to say beyond the purely banal. That is that the major bugs
are so obvious that they are detected by the program makers and thereby eliminated even before the program
is released on the market. While some of the smaller remains, and thus constitute a source of problems for all
future users.
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