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By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
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(?) Benchmarks

From Andreas Kupries on Mon, 05 Jul 1999

The sentence

"There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks"

(from http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/lg_answer42.html) is incomplete. The completed sentence is:

There are lies, damned lies, statistics, benchmarks and delivery dates.

(Not my invention, saw it as sig somewhere on usenet).

(!) One of the pages I linked to in this article implied that this was a paraphrase of a comment by Benjamin Disraeli (http://www.skittler.demon.co.uk/victorians/disraeli.htm).
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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Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 44 August 1999
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