As organisations that downsize too aggressively discover, having people around who actually remember what happened in the past can be very useful (no, this is no reference to CSR; though I have noticed that one of the most valuable and oft-forgotten ways to solve some new bug reports is to simply type the appropriate key into the bug database and discover how and why this was or was not fixed last time).
But instead, this is a pointer to Noam Chomsky's contribution to the George "I'm cr*p" Will debate.
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