Bruce IM’d with a quote I hadn’t seen in years:

>”Hip is transitory. Smart endures. Hip is defined by others. Smart is defined by intelligence. Hip is only for the moment. Smart is timeless. Hip is driven by trends. Smart is driven by performance. Hip is perpetually looking over your shoulder. Smart is making your own decisions. Hip is mango-chestnut gelati. Smart is chocolate ice cream. Hip is often difficult to define. Smart is always logically defensible. Hip is flash. Smart is substance. Hip is something that looks cool. Smart is something that works. Hip talks the talk. Smart walks the walk. Hip gets you a $300 a week cocaine habit. Smart gets you a big raise and the corner office.” 

He remembers it from a xeroxed handout in one of Brad Durham’s classes we both had at Art Center sometime in the very early 90s.

Amazingly, that only appears to be in Google once, on a seemingly abandoned Tripod page. Nothing in the Usenet archives and most non-Google search engines couldn’t even find the one tripod page.

Anyone remember where this is from or who wrote it?

*update:* also posted to Google Answers