Re: The Difference Between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions:

From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 16:14:44 EST

No, that's the difference between having a Huge Defense Budget Aligned with
Corporate Interests and Wanting to Spend Budget Money Before the Fiscal Year
Runs Out...and not. :).

Great story :). I'd like to see that pen.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out the
> pens wouldn't work in zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing
> surface). In order to solve the problem, they hired Andersen Consulting
> (Accenture today). It took them one decade and 12 million dollars. They
> developed a pen that worked in zero gravity, upside down, under water, on
> practically any surface, and in temperatures ranging from below freezing
> to over 300 degrees Centigrade.
>
> The Russians used a pencil.
>
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