Allen wrote: > There is lots more that can be said on the subject, but this is > not the list for it so I will forbear any further comment, except > this parting shot: What is the definition of crazy? Isn't it, > Repeating the actions of the past and expecting a different > outcome?" Funny, as in strange, how common this thinking is in IT. > Setting aside the capital punishment debate (which is truly OT) I would like to object to the repetition of the above oft-quoted and quite misguided parable.
Expecting different outcome from the the same actions is only crazy if you control all of the inputs, which is almost *never* the case, and is absolutely never in social situations. This quote is absolute nonsense. In almost every circumstance, it is *quite* reasonable to re-try an experiment to see if you get a different result. Please laugh at the next person you hear offering this as some kind of criticism of a proposal :) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin Botnets are the only commercially viable utility computing market _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
