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<H4>"The Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
LinuxCare,
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<p><strong>From Andreas Kupries on Mon, 05 Jul 1999
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The sentence
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"There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks"
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(from <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/lg_answer42.html"
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/lg_answer42.html</A>)
is incomplete. The completed sentence is:
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There are lies, damned lies, statistics, benchmarks
and delivery dates.
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(Not my invention, saw it as sig somewhere on usenet).
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One of the pages I linked to in this article
implied that this was a paraphrase of a comment
by Benjamin Disraeli
(<A HREF="http://www.skittler.demon.co.uk/victorians/disraeli.htm"
>http://www.skittler.demon.co.uk/victorians/disraeli.htm</A>).
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I don't actually know any about Disreali other than
what I just read in this link that Yahoo! spit out.
I'd heard the name before, that was all. Overall he
sounds like quite a chap. We could use a few more like
him in modern government ... on both sides of the
big puddle, I'd say.
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