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From: Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: desktop height?
Date: 31 Jan 2003 09:07:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptqez7sb.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: J0AZ9.55797$Oj7.11845179@twister.nyc.rr.com

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@CUT-this-SPAM-BLOCK.fit-zones.com> writes:

    Bruce> The Unux philosophy is that you have to spend hours
    Bruce> customzing, which makes bosses nervous, because you've
    Bruce> started the project, and they don't see you getting any
    Bruce> work done yet.

You should teach such bosses a Chinese proverb:

        To do  job(s) well, polish the  tool(s) first.

(I put  (s) here because Chinese doesn't  distinguish between singular
and plural.)



-- 
Lee Sau Dan                     李守敦(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-31  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28  6:47 desktop height? Bruce Ingalls
2003-01-28 14:27 ` Phillip Lord
2003-01-28 18:32   ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-01-28 18:48     ` Phillip Lord
2003-01-28 21:09       ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-01-31  8:07     ` Lee Sau Dan [this message]
2003-01-30 14:40 ` Chris McMahan
2003-01-31  0:11   ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-01-31 13:48     ` Chris McMahan

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