Re: lynx-dev <BR>

[Roving Reporter]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, David Combs wrote:

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>MANY years ago I read a book that related to this
>discussion a bit.
>
>Author was C. Northcote Parkinson.
>
>Had a story about a board of directors discussing forever
>the design of a bicycle shed, (total cost 100 pounds or
>something equally low), then ten minutes on building a
>nuclear plant for a gazillion dollars.
>:-)

That's cuz the human mind can't comprehend a gazillion dollars 
so we tend to skip or otherwise skirt around discussing things 
in that range. (Also most people don't want to do the line-by-line 
routine either!) 

The bicycle shed OTOH, is simple, easy to comprehend, and everyone 
has their own idea of how to do it better. (-:
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