At the Jefferson Memorial you find a lot of Jefferson’s writings - - as opposed to Lincoln’s, for example (one thing that makes sense in Washington, DC).  One of them says this:  “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.” 

One of my very first IT assignments was to write the coding standards for a major university - - we did all our own development at that time and were about to completely re-do all major systems (billing, collections, records and registration, scheduling, grading - - everything).  My writing experience had previously been journalistic or for the theatre.  So, I started asking people who had more experience.  First stop was a very senior manager who pointed to two shelves full of three inch, three ring binders on his bookshelf.  “Here’s a good example,” he said, “of...