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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by pg on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:03PM (#48872)
That's a great sentence. Could possibly even be boiled down to "you need a problem," since trying to solve problems is the way to develop skills.
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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by chaostheory on Friday August 31, 2007 @06:19PM (#49003)
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" -- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by ivankirigin on Friday August 31, 2007 @09:29PM (#49100)
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

...but, planning in place of action is planning on failure.

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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by Lagged2Death on Sunday September 02, 2007 @12:24AM (#49363)
I'd heard that as Winston Churchill.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Churchill

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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by erdos2 on Sunday September 02, 2007 @12:48AM (#49366)
A member of the National Academy of Sciences of my acquaintance once said that life was too chaotic to plan beyond six months.
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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by cglee on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:43PM (#48989)
Nice article, except the Columbus reference.
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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by mynameishere on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:54PM (#48919)
"I will solve XYZ problem" is a plan.
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Re:You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem. by jraines on Friday August 31, 2007 @04:28PM (#48943)
More of an intention.

I somewhat agree -- my first reaction was to append "and then a plan" to the end of the sentence.

But I think the most accurate take on the subject is this:

"I have always found plans to be worthless, but planning indispensable." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

An important distinction I think.

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