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Quoting Dilbert is a Best Practice

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Via Alex Hutton [link to http://riskmanagementinsight.com/riskanalysis/?p=409 no longer works].

Originally published by adam on 3 Sep 2008
Last modified on 6 Jul 2017
Categories:   Amusements  

2 comments on "Quoting Dilbert is a Best Practice"

  • Allan Friedman says:
    4 Sep 2008 at 11:05 am

    Stuart Schechter has used the following as a sig:
    Best practice:
    An idea that has no evidence to support its merits, and that probably doesn’t work, but that you can attribute to someone else when things go horribly, horribly wrong.
    Sample Usage: Don’t worry about the noise from that flaky Geiger counter; this plant complies with all best practices.

  • Chris says:
    4 Sep 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Best Practices are implemented to avoid losing negligence lawsuits. At that, they work pretty well.
    Engineers and lawyers speak past each other extremely efficiently.

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