
“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 13
Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 13
“Automating a mess yields an automated mess”
Reengineering the Corporation, 1993
Context: The genesis of reengineering lies in a phrase one of us coined in the late 1980s: “Automating a mess yields an automated mess.” Unless an organization reconceptualized its operations, overlaying new technology on these operations accomplished little.
“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 85