Caius Petronius Arbiter
"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation" - Caius Petronius Arbiter (AD 66) . .. .This gem, which was widely displayed in crew rooms and on office walls at Strike and MOD in the '70s, surfaced again in the Torygraph letters on 7 March. My suspicions were aroused when I could not find it in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. In today's letters, Lord Waldegrave claims that it was invented by a British Army Officer after WW2. I hope he is wrong. BEagle, could you revitalise the myth by exercising your scholarship and translating it back into the Latin? As I mentioned, I never got through Kennedy.