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Re: The 6-million-dollar documentation mistake

Subject: Re: The 6-million-dollar documentation mistake
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:14:50 -0500

Johnson, Tom wrote:

No matter how hard we try to make our instructions idiotproof, someone is going to design a better idiot.


Well put Tom. If there is one given in this thing we call life, it's that no matter how hard we try to make it as simple as possible, someone will screw it up and then try and blame it on someone else.

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