Re: OT: Roman General

From: tobias <tobias_at_thisisnotarealemailaddress.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:01:47 GMT
Message-ID: <tobias-655926.18014625012005@shawnews.gv.shawcable.net>

In article <ct5k5h$gr3$1_at_sparta.btinternet.com>, "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Someone on this newsgroup some time back
> had the quotation from a Roman general, or
> possibly Senator, about the way that people
> would re-structure the organisation when things
> went wrong because it looked as if they were
> doing something even if they weren't achieving
> anything.
>
> Does anyone remember the quotation - or even
> the name of the source.

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.

Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C

However it can not really be attributed to him ... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius_Arbiter and many other sources. Received on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 20:01:47 CST