I was referring to Hippocrates' aphorism (or observation) on getting things right. Roughly translated, it means 'The task takes time, but time is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous and judgment difficult. He followed this with the statement that the physician (or in this case administrator) must not only be prepared to do what is right for himself, but also what is right for the patient, the attendants, and externals. And Sting said history can teach us nothing - au contraire, although it seems not to have!
