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Apr. 28th, 2005 10:35 am"We trained hard... but everytime we started to excel, we were reorganized... Nothing gives the illusion of progress like reorganization."
Roman Centurion 82 A.D.
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The following quotation, or variants of it, is frequently attributed to Petronius:
"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."
This quotation is not by Petronius; the earliest reference to it dates only to 1970. There are references to it originating among disgruntled British occupying forces in post-1945 Germany (Petronian Society Newsletter, May 1981). The true author is unknown.
(But still gakked from Steamy...)
Roman Centurion 82 A.D.
*edit*
The following quotation, or variants of it, is frequently attributed to Petronius:
"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."
This quotation is not by Petronius; the earliest reference to it dates only to 1970. There are references to it originating among disgruntled British occupying forces in post-1945 Germany (Petronian Society Newsletter, May 1981). The true author is unknown.
(But still gakked from Steamy...)
