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  • Subject: Re: Resignation from International Alliance of iNation Citizens
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:17:01 -0500

From:    jt@ee.net (jt)
 
iNation etc started out alright, but where is it now? what
support does it have? from its "citizens" that are infighting?
From IBM that seems to have dropped the ball like a hot
potato (mixing a few metaphors here...)?
 
The whole thing makes me think of a quote by Fred Brooks:
(the mythical man-months chapter 11):
 
"things are always at their best in the beginning" said Pascal.
C.S.Lewis has stated it more perceptively:
    "That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -
    civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised;
    But each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw
    always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top,
    and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact,
    the machine conks. It sems to start up alright and runs
    a few yards, and then it breaks down"
 
Leif
 

 

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