the last lesson
General, Quotes, Work October 31st, 2005
Since CITES is nuking this out of ph tomorrow, I wanted to save the quote here:
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
It’s sad that CITES is working on two different projects for directory services and authentication services, and (oddly, but par for the course for this campus,) they are distinct focus groups. Although they’re similar services, they’ll design them separately. Until 5 years later someone decides that’s dumb and starts a third project group to unify them.
But it’s better than it used to be.
I just lament campus doesn’t want to be a facebook/phone book anymore. (I’ll save the rant about moving from structured data to a reliance on unstructured data for another day.) I also think it’s funny the quote above directly applies to doing the hard work needed to really have a good, solid, extendable directory service.
About
