Management Speak: We’ve learned our lesson and we’ll never make that mistake again.
Translation: Shut up! I don’t want to talk about it and I certainly don’t want you to rub my nose in it.
Alternate Translation: We have an entirely different mistake in mind for next time.
Today’s IS Survivalist is “one who should know better by now.”
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Great Quotations, 12/7/1998
“My problems start when the smarter bears and the dumber visitors intersect.”
– Steve Thompson, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park