Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alex Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Really? Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:43:35 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <87fujpw2kh.fsf@nightsong.com> <2017Feb8.184844@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:41:48 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8410e97a84b07085aee7f93be0505d28"; logging-data="15837"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tW7ve4zxjF3qtzVNYsl6W/qG6JFraZfo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: <2017Feb8.184844@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZSyGvwvuSrMfD3xZz8tHRP7qkGQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54725 On 2/8/2017 17:48, Anton Ertl wrote: > |JH: You have to back up, but when money > |is involved, time is involved, and reputations > | are involved, sometimes you can't > |back up. And if you can't back up and you > |can't go ahead, the fate is sealed. That > |doesn't seem to be acceptable either, but it > |often comes to a tragic end. A boss of mine in the early 1980s used to ask; "Why do we never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over?" I don't think he really knew the answer, even though he created, owned and managed a very succesful mainframe software company. -- Alex