Re: OT: Roman General

tobias <tobias_at_thisisnotarealemailaddress.com> wrote:
> 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.

That is much more elegant than my attempt to say pretty much the same thing.

Just because you are breaking eggs doesn't mean you are making an omlet.

Xho

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