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I've Never Known An Instance In The History Of Our Company Where An Executive Unloaded Responsibilities And Duties On One Lower In The Rank
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I've never known an instance in the history of our company where
an executive unloaded responsibilities and duties on one lower in
the ranks, that he did not find himself immediately loaded from above
with greater responsibility.
-- Arthur F. Hall
Related:
The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.
"Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average....
It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable.
I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360....
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6...
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it....
ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
Never shirk from doing anything which your business calls you to do.
The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. -- Drew...
Responsibility is the linchpin of our society. Each man responsible for his own actions, each action contributing to the greater good.
-- Major Briggs, from Twin Peak...
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....