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
next prev 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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