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On the "Air Ministry"...

Posted March 5, 2004 10:26 AM.

There are many organisations in my working life that I have decided - retroactively - to refer to as the Air Ministry:

"You can have any combination of features the Air Ministry desires, so long as you do not also require that the resulting airplane fly," said Willy Messerschmidt, preeminent World War II German aircraft designer.
[From The Humane Interface]

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Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.

Well that one is getting forwarded round work. How very apt and succinct.

→ Posted by: Gordon at March 5, 2004 11:03 AM

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