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Re: lynx-dev <BR>
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Re: lynx-dev <BR> |
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Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:44:48 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, David Combs wrote:
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>MANY years ago I read a book that related to this
>discussion a bit.
>
>Author was C. Northcote Parkinson.
>
>Had a story about a board of directors discussing forever
>the design of a bicycle shed, (total cost 100 pounds or
>something equally low), then ten minutes on building a
>nuclear plant for a gazillion dollars.
>:-)
That's cuz the human mind can't comprehend a gazillion dollars
so we tend to skip or otherwise skirt around discussing things
in that range. (Also most people don't want to do the line-by-line
routine either!)
The bicycle shed OTOH, is simple, easy to comprehend, and everyone
has their own idea of how to do it better. (-:
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