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Subject:Re: Know the New Economy From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 01 May 2000 19:28:12 -0700
Andrew Plato wrote:
>Now as far as I am concerned, a REAL professional can still produce beauty from
>an inferior product. An UNprofessional whines about how his/her needs aren't
>being met.
Maybe it's just that professionals have more time to work because
they don't waste any complaining.
Of course, as a Canadian, I subscribe to a tradition that's at
least as old as the first World War of complaining loudly WHILE
getting the job done efficiently. :-)
--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
"The Open Road" column, Maximum Linux
3015 Aries Place, Burnaby, BC V3J 7E8, Canada
bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604.421.7189
"Hal-an-tow, jolly rumble-o,
We were out long before the day-o
To welcome in the summer time, to welcome in the May-o,
Summer is a-coming in and winter's gone away."
- Traditional
