[72833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2511 line break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Jul 27 19:41:46 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16646.43889.265022.148788@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:22:25 -1000 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > There is also an infinite supply of idiots and mediocre network
> > engineers. Breaking up stuff is easier than making it robust
> Ettore Bugatti, maker of the finest cars of his day, was once asked
> why his cars had less than perfect brakes. He replied something
> like, "Any fool can make a car stop. It takes a genius to make a
> car go."
interesting.
back when i was doing a lot of performance driving stuff (mostly
bmw club race track schools), i made the following observation:
you can tell someone has become an intermediate driver because
they start regularly trashing their brakes.
you can tell someone has become an advanced driver when they
learn how to go even faster while not trashing their brakes.
cheers,
richard
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