quote on change/reorganisation by Tacitus?
Rafael Salasnik
quote was a sradonic one concerning reorganising military groups & was I
think by Tacitus or another Roman. HAve looked on the web with no luck.
Can anybody help?
Thanks
Rafael
David C. Kifer
Go to:
http://www.research.att.com/~reeds/petronius.html
It has the quote (not actually by Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.)
and some thoughts on the actual origin.
We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were
beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was
to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the
illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency,
and demoralization.
--
Dave
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>Change is good. You go first.~Scott Adams (in Dilbert)
When they talk about change, that just means they're going to start
screwing you faster.
-- ???[sorry! wording's approx., too]
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time; what we really want is for things to remain the same
but get better.~Sydney J. Harris
It is only the supremely wise or the deeply ignorant who
never change.~Confucius
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.~Linda
Ellerbee
In terms of quality of work, experience is an advantage. But
when the whole culture changes its value system, as ours has
been doing, you can evolve in a way that's appropriate for
your age and still wind up as an artifact.~Paul Simon
What the liberal really wants is to bring about change which
will not in any way endanger his position.~Stokely
Carmichael
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.~W.
Edwards Deming
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.~Ellen
Glasgow
Change before you have to.~Jack Welch
Change is good, but dollars are better.~?
Change is inevitable. Except from vending machines.~?
Change is not a process for the impatient.~Barbara Reinhold
"Change" just means the bastards intend to start screwing
you even more.~?
Even God cannot change the past.~Agathon
I never changed anything, except my socks and my
underwear.~Robert Mitchum
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing
changed.~George Carlin
I thought you only changed a Pampers once a week. The box
said holds 27 pounds.~?
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the
source code.~?
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.~Albert
Einstein
If you voted for change, you better start counting it.~?
If you want to make enemies, try to change
something.~Woodrow Wilson
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything
has changed.~Irene Poter
One person *can* change the world, but most of the time, you
probably shouldn't.~Marge Simpson
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to
preserve change amid order.~Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing permanent except change.~Heraclitus
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to
change.~Lucius Cary
Change is not progress.~H.L. Mencken
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>One person *can* change the world, but most of the time, you
>probably shouldn't.~Marge Simpson
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>On 04 Jul 2001 04:56:47 GMT, "Kevin G. Barkes" <k...@kgb.com> wrote:
"Change" is a blank check -- and as dangerous as any other
blank check. There is no reason to be automatically for or against
anything as vague and sweeping as change. Everything depends on the
specific merits or demerits of particular changes. But the ease with
which so many people embrace undefined "change" is scary. It makes
them -- and us -- vulnerable to any glib demagogue who can come along
and hype his particular brand of "change."
-- Thomas Sowell