Re: OT: Roman General

"tobias" <tobias_at_thisisnotarealemailaddress.com> a écrit dans le message de news:tobias-655926.18014625012005_at_shawnews.gv.shawcable.net...
| In article <ct5k5h$gr3$1_at_sparta.btinternet.com>,
| "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
|
| > Someone on this newsgroup some time back
| > had the quotation from a Roman general, or
| > possibly Senator, about the way that people
| > would re-structure the organisation when things
| > went wrong because it looked as if they were
| > doing something even if they weren't achieving
| > anything.
| >
| > Does anyone remember the quotation - or even
| > the name of the source.
|
|
| 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.
|
| Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C
|
|
| However it can not really be attributed to him
| ... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius_Arbiter and many other sources.

For instance:
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/petronius.html

Regards
Michel Cadot Received on Wed Jan 26 2005 - 10:48:15 CST