Re: Are you as polite and diplomatic as COBOL?...
- From: "Michael Mattias" <michael.mattias@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:27:11 GMT
"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> (The most dangerous phrase in the English Language is: "We've always done
it
> that way." - Grace Hopper)
What a great quote. I've long used "We've always done it that way" as my
primary "non-reason to do something a certain way" (sheesh, that makes for
some obtuse grammar, huh?).
But putting the 'danger' with that phrase, in the words of the fictitious
beer-hawking brothers, "Brilliant!"
MCM
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