March 07, 2004
Quote(s) of the Day
In engineering, we say it like this: any idiot can find a problem. It takes a real engineer to fix them. It takes a leader to fix the process that causes the problem in the first place.
Alan Weiss
...another example of how the language has been corrupted by the anointed. "Compassion" used to mean that one shared the difficulties of the unfortuante. In the 19th century, people went down to the immigrant ghetto and helped the family learn things like parenting skills, work skills, money management, staying off the booze, and/or whatever was needed. Only after government decided they could do this better than individuals from churches and fraternal organizations did "compassion" come to mean sending your money to some bureaucrat to pass a fraction of it on to the officially poor.
Chris Claypoole
Posted by Russell Whitaker at March 7, 2004 08:28 AM | TrackBack