Quote: I choose a lazy person to do a hard job (Attributed to Bill Gates) (Congressional Record Help Request)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are the year and month for the citation with the attribution to
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

Journal: Review of Military Literature: The Command and General Staff
School Quarterly
Year: 1933
Month: September
Volume: 13
Number 50
Quote Page: 23 and 24
Published Quarterly by The Command and General Staff School Library,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:30 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Dan and Dave. Your help is deeply appreciated. Carl von
> Clausewitz is also the lucky recipient of an ascription together with
> Helmuth von Moltke, Erich von Manstein and others. The attribution to
> "von Somebody" is popular.
>
> The people who are citing this breakdown into four classes clearly
> want to be placed in the brilliant but lazy quadrant. To prove their
> laziness they give sloppy and/or misleading quotations and
> attributions. The diligent but block-headed quadrant which is labeled
> dangerous is my homebase though I slip into the lazy sector
> periodically.
>
> The leading candidate currently is Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. There
> are a cluster of citations for Hammerstein in 1933, and I was able to
> access scans for the following:
>

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