Quark

Here are the buffs observing a lack of programme quality evidenced by poor programme documentation. And there are the staff complaining about having to prepare too many documents.

But there is no criterion for programme quality that would justify UN staff’s obsession with paper. 

Documentation is meant to achieve clarity. The more concise, the better. There is little use for documents if there is no point to be made. Or as Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) put it:

Getretner Quark
wird breit nicht stark^[1] 

^[1] This has to do with cottage cheese, which - the more you stir and pound it – gets softer, not stronger.

(9 May 2003)

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