[Ads-l] "building the plane"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Venture capitalists have used the phrase: You've got to jump off a
cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Here is link to the analysis. The first citation was dated November 18, 1979.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/17/cliff-wings/

In the domain of computer technology I have heard the following analogy.

Designing an upgradable computer system is like designing a sports car
while riding a tricycle. You must upgrade the tricycle piece by piece
to yield the sports car, but you must keep riding the vehicle while it
is being transformed.

Garson


On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Errol Louis, CNN:
>
> "They're building the plane as it's taking off, and the problem for [the
> candidate] is that they're running out of runway."
>
> A number of related Google hits back to at least 2013.
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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