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Subject:RE: "If the docs are too good..." From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:<technical -at- theverbalist -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:12:53 -0500
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. You can answer every
possible question you can think of in the documentation and the stupid
people will still need training, or will think their staff needs training.
"Money makes the world go 'round" is an incomplete statement; money is the
fuel, and stupidity is the short bus that burns it.
Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: So an SME I was talking to floated the ol' air biscuit that
::: he "was told
::: by someone who'd been told that if the product docs were
::: too good, that
::: clients wouldn't purchase the training." Any suggestions for snappy
::: come-backs to that one?
