We are long...

[Elder]

Умный человек - этот Джордж Гарлин. И сочинял хорошо.
Но как точно перевести:
"we are long on quantity, but short on quality"
Значение "Мы сосредоточены на количестве, но не заботимся о качестве.". Но каков же корректный перевод? Спасибо!

[delta]

Ваотант:
Наша сильная сторона - количество, а слабая - качество :-)

[Shumov]

какой Джордж?.. Это же Далай-лама!

[delta]

Exactly, Shumov!

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbour.

Все построено на противопоставлениях. Поэтому:

"Мы преуспели в количестве, но забыли о качестве"

[nephew]

какой далай-лама? это же Джордж Карлин!

[delta]

Ничё не понимаю )
"We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor." - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroads_dispatches/2006/11/weve_been_all_t.html

А вот и весь текст:

"We have bigger houses but smaller families:
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgements;
more experts but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbour.
We build more computers
to hold more information,
to produce more copies than ever,
but we have less communication.
We have become long on quantity
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion;
tall man, but short character;
steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window
but nothing in the room."

-Dalai Lama
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=454

[nephew]

ну Elder'у-то, наверное, виднее :)
тем более что сам Карлин говаривал, I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.